Surprisingly, there are 14 years between these books. That's exactly how long Leo Tolstoy felt one cycle of human maturation constitutes. He had an almost intimate idea of dividing life into periods—conditional periods in which, every fourteen years, a person reaches a new level of understanding.
If, putting aside excessive modesty (briefly and strictly for scientific purposes), we apply this logic to ourselves, a curious picture emerges.
Что определяет нашу жизнь? Конечно же новые отношения и порождаемые ими события. Но, именно смерть, своим неотвратимым пределом накладывает на нашу жизнь важное обстоятельство – жить её в максимально возможной полноте и яркости.
Later we may ask ourselves where we are going and why. This thought came to my mind under the sign “CANNIBALISM POLICE”… But it was too late, we had to go farther consoling ourselves with the thought that we were among the very few people in the whole world who had made some steps forward from the sign. Read more...
