Married and Locked up in a Stable/ Leon Tolstoy
During the hours of solitude, suffering, and partial delirium he spent after he was wounded, the more deeply he penetrated into the new principle of eternal love revealed to him, the more he unconsciously detached himself from earthly life … It was the last spiritual struggle between life and death, in which death gained the […]
Books for a Lifetime/ Marcel Proust
“By the way,” said Swann to my grandfather, “what I was going to tell you has more to do than you might think with what you were asking me just now, for in some respects there has been very little change. I came across a passage in Saint-Simon this morning which would have amused you. […]
