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Leo Tolstoy • Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
When the man saw me he frowned and became still more terrible, and passed me by on the other side. I despaired, but suddenly I heard him coming back. I looked up, and did not recognize the same man: before, I had seen death in his face; but now he was alive, and I recognized in him the presence of God.
Leo Tolstoy • Walk in the Light and Twenty-Three Tales
So of course, Gaius could be mortal, and it was right for him to die, but for me, little Vanya, for Ivan Ilych, with all my thoughts and emotions—for me it’s a different story. It can’t possibly be that I have to die. That would be too horrible.
Leo Tolstoy • The Death of Ivan Ilych (The Art of the Novella)
What to Gaius was the striped leather ball that little Vanya had loved so much? What did Gaius have to do with him kissing his mother’s hand, and had Gaius ever heard the silken rustle of his mother’s dress? Had he rioted over the pirogies at the law school? Had this Gaius ever fallen in love? And could Gaius ever preside over a courtroom the way h
... See moreLeo Tolstoy • The Death of Ivan Ilych (The Art of the Novella)
“Why,” said I, glancing up at my companion, “that was surely the bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?” “Except yourself I have none,” he answered. “I do not encourage visitors.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Sherlock Holmes
Bear Ye My Burden Society.
Leo Tolstoy • The Death of Ivan Ilych (The Art of the Novella)
