Starost' ne radost'

[Daniel Rancour-Laferriere]

In old age Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy used to say to Dushan Petrovich 
Makovitskii: "Starost' - radost'" (thus contradicting the Russian 
proverb).  Lev Nikolaevich looked forward to death with joyful 
anticipation, or so he claimed when he was not depressed.

Daniel RL


Peter Houtzagers wrote:

>> Starość nie radość, a śmierć nie pociecha. 
>
>
> I wonder how the Poles know this, but perhaps that is what true 
> pessimism is about.
>
> Peter Houtzagers
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