“The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold.”

— Leo Tolstoy · Wisdom quote

Writer · 1828 – 1910

Russian novelist, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

Source: Tolstoy's Diaries · ✓ Source verified

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