Status Updates From The Diaries Of Leo Tolstoy:...

"I remark in myself a sign of old age." - ... at 24! his own biggest critic.

"One should not say that life is a trial, and death is a blessing which puts away from us all sorrow."

"In fancy there is a side that is better than reality. In reality there is a side that is better than fancy. And in union between the two should lie complete happiness."

a virtual "self-flagellation" at its best... Leo is giving labels to everything he does wrong in his own view... there is a lot of sloth and self-deception and shyness.

"I always seem to act at random." - me too, Leo, me too.

Positively hilarious scheduling "making love to the Princess" in your diary.... it really does go something like, "wake up in the morning, eat, write, visit, make love to the Princess, then go visit tziganes."

Crikey... on Dec 19th, Leo writes that everything he scheduled for himself to do on the 18th, he did! So, a moment of pride! But what did he do? Wrote, read, entertained, took a stroll, then wrote and wrote more.
I mean... WILD!!! Can I have that life?! XD