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Memento mori — remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die — what makes this any different from a half hour?
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian novelist and moral philosopher
Path of Life [Calendar of Wisdom; Круг чтения], ch. 21 “Living in the Present,” sec. 5.12 (1903-1911) [(tr. Cote (2002)]More about this quote: wist.info/tolstoy-leo/83806/
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we need to understand something: this is not some kind of teen revolt, for this kid to publicly demonstrate such inhuman message there must be a wide support of this idea in the society around her, a deep cultural acceptance of it.
this is the #russian culture, #dostoyevsky & #tolstoy. this is russky mir. -
This episode was too much fun because Russian Lit is too much fun.