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Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace Quotes: Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.
         

Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.


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