Leo Tolstoy actually the greatest genius, but the philosophy of Leo Tolstoy in some issues moving away from Christianity, but there are writers who are not Christians at all, but they are very inspiring. I like very much Theodore Dreiser, but my favorite writers are Cervantes, Shakespeare, Victor Hugo.
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