Show TOLSTOI ON DEATH A cable to the new york sun quotes tolstoi in answer to a friend who congratulated him on his approaching eightieth birthday as saying 1 I know with certainty that in dying I 1 shall be happy and I 1 shall enter a world more real all earthly life is a a dream and death the true awakening I 1 await that awakening with happiness our earthly life Is one of dreams of another and more re real al life I 1 and that other life Is a dream of yet another and so on ad infinitum even to I 1 the last life the life of god of death at different ages and under different circumstances he says death in youth is as when a man is awake awakened hed before he has slept full measure death in old age is as when a man awakes of his own accord after a good sleep suicide is rag as a nightmare which a man banishes by remembering em bering that lie he is asleep hi he makes an effort and wakes |