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Timeline (1853 - 1900)

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Original Language
Russian

If desires fly by like shadows,

Themes

Death

Eternal Life

Light

Recommended Books

	Dostoevsky and Soloviev: The Art of Integral Vision, by Marina Kostalevsky
	The Heart of Reality: Essays on Beauty, Love and Ethics, by Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov / Edited by Vladimir Wozniuk
	The Justification of the Good: An Essay on Moral Philosophy, by Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov / Edited by Boris Jakim
	Lectures on Divine Humanity: (Library of Russian Philosophy), by Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov / Edited by Boris Jakim
	The Meaning of Love: (Library of Russian Philosophy), by Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov

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If desires fly by like shadows,
If vows are empty words,
Is it worth it to live in this fog of delusion,
Is it worth it to live if the truth is dead?

Does one need eternity for useless striving,
Does one need eternity for deceptive words?
What is worthy of life lives without doubts,
A higher power knows no bonds.

Knowing one's own higher power,
Why wail on about childish dreams?
Life is just an exploit, and the living truth
Shines like immortality in moldering graves.

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