TOLSTOI'S THOUGHTS OF DEATH
"I am feeling better," said Tolstoi, to a recent interviewer at Moscow, "and to tell the truth I am very sorry for it, as I love to be ill. Sickness and suffering destroy what is mortal in man solely to prepare him for something better." And low- ring his voice, he continued : "Don't let jSophio Andrejevna" (the Countess) "hear us Between you and me, I wouldn t like to get well again. If I do, I promise you to write down the thoughts on life and death-if there is such a thing as death—that have crystallised in my brain during the past weeks while I lay here prostrate, undisturbed, happy. Their upshot is that death is but an incident, an episode in our present existence, while life itsolf never terminates. J3ence death has nothing terrible; it potends only an intermezzo in eternal life. As the .slave looks for the liberator, so I look for d«ath—look for it anv moment, would welcome it under all circumstances. And when it does come a shout of joy shall arise from ray breast liko that escaping the mouth of a now-born babe
entering upon tha phase -,f life whiuh you anil I are now enduring "
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 28 August 1901, Page 4
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205TOLSTOI'S THOUGHTS OF DEATH Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 28 August 1901, Page 4
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