Olga Metchnikoff (quoted text)

After his recovery, he had a renaissance of vital intensity. The life instinct developed in him in a high degree. His health became flourishing, his energy and power for work greater than ever, and the pessimism of his youth began to pale before the optimistic dawn of his maturity.

It was at dawn that we reached the little railway station where a carriage had come to meet us.

It was at dawn that we reached the little railway station where a carriage had come to meet us.

It was at dawn that we reached the little railway station where a carriage had come to meet us.

We were excited by the sight of the Russian country. Cool meadows, forest, fields, all such simple landscapes that we had not seen for so long. And we were also greatly moved at the idea of meeting Tolstoy.

We were excited by the sight of the Russian country. Cool meadows, forest, fields, all such simple landscapes that we had not seen for so long. And we were also greatly moved at the idea of meeting Tolstoy.

We were excited by the sight of the Russian country. Cool meadows, forest, fields, all such simple landscapes that we had not seen for so long. And we were also greatly moved at the idea of meeting Tolstoy.

He could not bear the idea, now a terrible reality, that these brilliant young lives should be sacrificed.

He could not bear the idea, now a terrible reality, that these brilliant young lives should be sacrificed.

He could not bear the idea, now a terrible reality, that these brilliant young lives should be sacrificed.

The contrast between his aspiration and the cruel reality had been to him a blow, which his sensitive and suffering heart was not fit to bear.

The contrast between his aspiration and the cruel reality had been to him a blow, which his sensitive and suffering heart was not fit to bear.

The contrast between his aspiration and the cruel reality had been to him a blow, which his sensitive and suffering heart was not fit to bear.