Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes

There was no answer except the usual answer life gives to the most complicated and insoluble questions. This answer is: carry on with your everyday affairs, that is to say, put it out of your mind.

- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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