"I wanted to write more and that, willy-nilly, I am forced to believe that a glory was created for me, unbecoming of me, as an important, "great" man and writer. And this position obliges me. I feel that I have been given a mouthpiece which might have been in the hands of others, more entitled to use it, but it is volens nolens with me, and I would be to blame if I did not use it well. Lately, it seems that I use it more for empty chatter and repeating the same old things. We will try.
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Leo TolstoyAll Translations
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I wanted to write more and that, willy-nilly, I am forced to believe that a glory was created for me, unbecoming of me, as an important, "great" man and writer. And this position obliges me. I feel that I have been given a mouthpiece which might have been in the hands of others, more entitled to use it, but it is volens nolens with me, and I would be to blame if I did not use it well. Lately, it seems that I use it more for empty chatter and repeating the same old things. We will try.
""Am vrut să mai scriu și că vrând-nevrând sunt nevoit să cred că mi s-a creat o glorie, nepotrivită mie, de om și scriitor important, „mare“. Iar aceasta poziție mă obligă. Simt că mi s-a dat o portavoce care s-ar fi putut afla în mâinile altora, mai îndreptățiți s-o folosească, dar ea este volens nolens la mine și aș fi de blamat dacă n-as folosi-o bine. În ultimul timp, se pare ca eu mă folosesc de ea mai mult pentru vorbărie goală și repetarea celor vechi. O să ne străduim."