/lit/ - Literature

Tolstoy
Anna Karenina

>>18995174

more like the peak of all literature, am I right fellas?

>>17849426
>subject line ends in a preposition
>hear me out on this one
No, I don’t think I will

>I have never been in love with a woman, but I have quite often fallen in love with a man. . . . I feel in love with a man before I knew what pederasty was. . . . Beauty has always been a powerful factor in my attractions; there is D---, for example. I shall never forget the night we left Pirogovo together, when, wrapped in my blanket, I wanted devour him with kisses and weep. Sexual desire was not totally absent, but it is impossible to say what role it played.

This gay is trying to talk me into sexual abstinence. It is ok to have sex, but when old people are done with sex, they try to stop young people from having sex too. This is nonsense.
Worth mentioning that Tolstoy had sex quite a bit durung his youth.

>>16102592
You mean that 80 year old man didnt jog like some silly human maggot completely toxified by modern city life? That guy that served as an officer in the Crimean War, travelled widely, set up large charitable institutions and lived in the countryside? How many times this week have you jerked off to another man fucking a woman in the wan light of your virtual masculinity?

>>15177241
Dislike him. A formidable mediocrity.

>>15030192
Fuck off

Tolstoy was a chad

>His servant smoothed out her skirt and went back to her hovel. Six inches from head to bush was all she needed.

>write a diary detailing the endless thots I have pumped and dumped
>burn it all

>>12475016

"Kerr has said that every attachment has two sides: one loves, and the other allows himself to be loved; one kisses, and the other surrenders his cheek. That is perfectly true. In the case of our own attachment it was I who kissed, and Dimitri who surrendered his cheek—though he, in his turn, was ready to pay me a similar salute. We loved equally because we knew and appreciated each other thoroughly, but this did not prevent him from exercising an influence over me, nor myself from rendering him adoration."

Was Tolstoy homo?

"I was shy by nature, and rendered worse in that respect by a consciousness of my own ugliness. I am certain that nothing so much influences the development of a man as his exterior—though the exterior itself less than his belief in its plainness or beauty. Yet I was too conceited altogether to resign myself to my fate. I tried to comfort myself much as the fox did when he declared that the grapes were sour. That is to say, I tried to make light of the satisfaction to be gained from making such use of a pleasing exterior as I believed Woloda to employ (satisfaction which I nevertheless envied him from my heart), and endeavoured with every faculty of my intellect and imagination to console myself with a pride in my isolation."

Would Tolstoy frequent /lit/?

>ywn never load up on vodka and smash peasant girl pussy with based Leo

>be aristocrat
>smash endless serf bitches
>dozens of illegitimate children
>fight in Crimea, win decorations for removing baguette
>marry well connected chick 16 years younger than you
>14 legitimate children
>decide to stop giving a fuck and become Christian
>preach against sexuality, forcing thousands into inceldom, literally cockblocking millions

>>11270047
Always.

Anna Karenina or War and Peace?