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"Apparently he didn't allow his wife to even visit him on his deathbed for fear he would die faster"
"They have full length classic movies and audio books as well as documentaries and ebooks."
"He never coasts. It's not the big passages that make him special, it's that every passage is working at twice the level of other writers. No big flashy words, no warnings that we are in the middle of a quotable quote, no jarring twists of plot to marvel at just for the sake of marvel. Instead, what "
"Of all the great national heroes and statesmen of history Lincoln is the only real giant. Alexander, Frederick the Great, Cesar, Napoleon, Gladstone and even Washington stand in greatness of character, in depth of feeling and in a certain moral power far behind Lincoln."
"Over the past few months /r/RSBookClub has read Hrabel's *Too Loud a Solitude*, Didion's *Slouching Towards Bethlehem*, Houellebecq's *Elementary Particles*, Bulgakov's *The Master & Margarita*, and Tolstoy's *The Death of Ivan Ilyich*."
"Recently I finished Anna Karenina and am currently reading Catch-22."
"remember a few months ago I said I was flirting with a new server at my local bar and talking about Tolstoy, and the next day I was flirting with one talking about how we both grew up in Mexico, and I wasn't sure if it was the same girl?"
"Did you know Tolstoy tried to limit his brothel visits to just twice a month? Tolstoy fucked hookers. He pumped his ejaculate into ladies of the night – so did Shakespeare."
"God damn, that was so good. Everything about it rocked. It's my all time favourite book I have ever read. I may just start rereading again tomorrow, I truly loved it."
"Tolstoy would be a trust fund kid larping as working class. He would be super liberal and vocal on social media until he was forced to lay low for a while after being cancelled for having had an unequal power dynamic relationship with his maid"
"Yet even then I can think of plenty of former contributors to the Partisan Review who became idiosyncratically conservative or even neocons by middle age, along with Christopher Lasch, Richard Hofstadter, Tolstoy (possibly), Foucault (cannot be denied)."
"I wrote an essay on the theologies of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (free ofc)! its alsooo about other stuff, some of u may enjoy! <3"
"This is more of an afterthought, but watching TBATH made me realize a kind of Tolstoyan reverence Miyazaki holds for physical labor. Miyazaki's worlds always feel more real because it's filled with laborers - women fanning the flames of a furnace to forge iron, bathhouse cleaners scrubbing the filth"
"I just finished War & Peace"
"I wrote an essay on the theologies of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky"
"Around the same time she warned me about Tolstoy because she found the names and their diminutives annoying to keep track of"