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DAYS LIKE THESE 22 NOVEMBER 1862

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20021122
Author:Ian Irvine

Sophie Tolstoy, the 18-year-old wife of the novelist Leo Tolstoy (then 35), writes in her diary: "He disgusts me with his People. I feel he ought to choose between me, ie the representative of the family, and his beloved People. This is egoism, I know. But let it be. I have given my life to him, I live through him, and I expect him to do the same. Otherwise the place grows too depressing; I ran away today because everybody and everything repelled me - Auntie and the students and the walls and the whole life here, so that I laughed for joy when I ran quietly away from the house. Leo did not ...

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