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Tolstoy, in the earlier period of his life, created some artistic pieces which gave him Europe-wide fame. But in the later period of his life, when a gloomy saturnine asceticism held his mind, he preached moralizing sermons instead and puritanically denounced art.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Specific Arts > # 99