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Quotation from A Confession by Leo Tolstoy

“To know God and to live is one and the same thing.”

Leo Tolstoy (spoken by Tolstoy)

A Confession, Chapter XII, trans. Aylmer Maude (1921)

Portrait of Leo Tolstoy

His realization in the spring woods that he truly lives only when he believes in God.

Citation: "To know God and to live is one and the same thing." — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, Chapter XII, trans. Aylmer Maude (1921). (id tolstoy-a-confession-q4)

Portrait: L.N.Tolstoy Prokudin-Gorsky, Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, Public domain.

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