Tolstoy - Stefan Zweig

For thirty years, from twenty to fifty, Tolstoy lived freely and carelessly creating his works... And for another thirty years, from fifty until his death, he lived only in order to know and understand the meaning of life, struggling against what is incomprehensible, restricted to what is difficult to reach . .. And his task remained easy and easy until the day when he took upon himself this message: to be saved by his struggle for the sake of truth, not only his person, but the entire humanity as well, and that his feet on this message makes him a hero, even almost a saint. As for his fall in the midst of the struggle for the sake of Achieving it makes him the most humane person ever