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Esther Perel on The Tolstoys

Significant Others

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Tolstoy's Life, the Importance of a Woman

"He did have a great deal of empathy, or at the very least sympathy, for ina the workers," she says. "It revolutionized his world view. And he thought propety was theft." The novel ends with tolstoy being calmed by his best friend who bests him at his own game.

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