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Five years ago faith came to me
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“Five years ago faith came to me”

Leo Tolstoy

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My Religion
Date
1885
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Huntington Smith — Translator · from Russian
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Meaning of “Five years ago faith came to me”

Tolstoy marks the beginning of a religious reorientation that he says changed his desires and reversed his judgments about how to live.

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My Religion, Introduction; Huntington Smith translation, represented 1885 Crowell edition, Project Gutenberg #43794. Tolstoy’s autobiographical opening says that faith came to him five years earlier and describes the reversal of his former judgments and desires.

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