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3 JULY 1890

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20080703
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Days like these

Leo Tolstoy, the Russian novelist, writes: "Went downstairs to sleep. Got up late. Depressed and bored; idleness, luxurious living, useless talk. It's as if cog wheels are swimming in grease, get clogged and won't engage. Should one write for people like that? Why? I've a strange reluctance to write. Yesterday I thought vividly about women ... The main feature about women is their lack of respect for thought, lack of trust in what thought ... will lead to. Hence falsehood, distortion of the truth ... If men were not so bound to women by sexual feeling ... they would see ...

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