Sofia Tolstoj

Quotes

• “If I could kill him and create a new person exactly the same as he is now, I would do so happily.”
• “My jealousy is a congenital illness, or maybe in loving him I have nothing else to love.”
• “It is always the way, the richer the imagination the poorer the life. One can imagine anything – thousands of different worlds – yet one has to live in one's own little circle.”
• “We live in such isolation, and here I am again with my silent friend, my diary.”
• “I am so tired of all this intellectualising – attacking this and denying that, and searching not for truth, for that would be good, but for anything startling, shocking or original, anything that hasn't been said before – and it is so tedious. When people endure heart-ache and suffering in their search for truth, that is fine and honourable, but it's wrong merely to try and shock others. Each person should seek the truth for himself.”
• “Everyone wants love, but there are so few who can give it. Or else you offer it passionately, selflessly, and it's rejected, your love is not wanted, it's a burden.”

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Key facts

Born

Sophia Andreyevna Behrs , ( 1844-08-22 ) 22 August 1844, Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo , Russia

Died

4 November 1919 (1919-11-04) (aged 75), Yasnaya Polyana , Russia

Other names

Sophia Tolstoy, Sonya Tolstoy, Sofia Tolstoy

Occupations

Diarist, copyist

Spouse

Leo Tolstoy ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 23 September 1862</span>"}]]}'>1862 ; died 20 November 1910</span>"}]]}'>1910 ) ​

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