/lit/ - Literature

"The life of the body is an evil and a lie. An so the destruction of life of the body is a blessing, and we should long for it."

"Life is what it should not be, an evil; and a passage into nothingness is the only blessing that life has to offer."

"Everything in the world - all is vanity and emptiness. A man dies and nothing remains. And this is absurd."

"And this is the fate of all people? And it will happen to me as well? They will bury me, and a stench will rise from me, and worms will consume me?"

"The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgence of a spoiled child."

A Confession - My favourite Tolstoy. Thoughts?