Tolstoy | Stefan Zweig

He lived Tolstoy throughout thirty years from the twenties to the fifties creating his works freely unconcerned... and during another thirty years, from the fifties until death, he lived only to know the meaning of life and understand it, struggling against what cannot be grasped, bound to what is difficult to reach... and his mission remained easy until the day he took upon himself this message: to be faithful through his struggle for the truth, not only for himself but also for all humanity, and his stepping into this message makes him a hero, almost a saint, while his fall in the midst of the struggle to achieve it makes him the most humane of people. Stefan Zweig