"“Leo Nicolayevich, what is madness?” I asked him … The reply followed. “It is selfishness,” he explained, “the narrowing of one's attention to oneself and afterward to any single idea.”"
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Victor Lebrun
1882 – 1979
Victor Lebrun (1882 – 1979) was a French Esperantist writer and a Tolstoyan.
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