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# Oh, Tolstoy
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/31171/
- Published: 2014-02-20T06:15:32.000Z
- Updated: 2014-02-20T06:15:32.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

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I'm something of a literary anecdote junkie. Maybe it's because writers can be so stupid and clever at the same time. Here's a great one that I found in an Epstein essay:

"Tolstoy \[claimed\] 'My diaries are me,'--but in his case they aren't; they were chiefly him in his mood of self-flagellation, filled with accounts of his youthful whoring and carousing. He showed the diaries to his young wife--was there ever a genius more stupid than Tolstoy?--which got their marriage off on just the wrong note."