Tolstoy quotation

[Katz, Michael R.]

Dear colleagues:

I am translating and annotating Sofiya Andreevna Tolstaya's novella, Song Without Words, and I came across the following:

"Leo Tolstoy writes somewhere: 'Death is only the annihilation of temporary form; but this annihilation never ceases . . . ' Further, he says: 'The best proof of immortality is that no one is able to conceive of the end of his own existence, and the very impossibility of imagining one’s death is proof that it really doesn’t exist.'"

Can anyone help me identify the Tolstoy text from which this is taken?

With thanks.

Michael Katz
Middlebury College
mkatz at middlebury.edu

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