Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude I In Petersburg in the eight...
2011-12-14
it?' 'Yes--now or never!' thought she. 'He is bound to know of it anyway. But now he will not fors...
explanation flew to atoms. But a time came when I ceased tobelieve in the finite. And then I began t...
self-oblivion in consciousness of the fulfilment of duty--a feeling he always experienced when hear...
And remembering how those very beliefs had repelled me and had seemed meaningless when professed by...
man, but a pitiable and ridiculous one!' And he threw back the folds of his cassock and smiled as h...
of life in me had been destroyed and I had reached theimpossibility of living, a cessation of life a...
not understood. I long was timid before science, and it seemed tome that the lack of conformity betw...
It explained the whole mystery. Silfax was the mysterious being so long vainly sought for in the de...
question as to the meaning of my life." In the abstract sphere I understood that notwithstanding th...
am able to judge, my grandfather, in his very insanity, is a man of most powerful mind. He formerly...
this so that, even after death, life shall not be renewed any morebut be completely destroyed at its...
foiled in his purpose of revenge, cast himself headlong into the waters of the lake. "Save him! oh...
myself. "I have blundered somewhere." But it was a long time before I could find out where the mist...
A Confession by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy I I was baptized and brought up in the Orthodox Christian...