"The Last Stand": I don't want to be a saint

Jessika 2022-04-22 07:01:47

At the end, there is a very good paragraph, he said, you just want to make him a saint, and he doesn't want to be a saint, he just wants a quiet and peaceful life.
I think we all made the mistake of treating people who have been repeatedly exaggerated in history as saints, and ignoring the joys, sorrows and joys that they should have as ordinary people... Not that they are not enough for us to awe, I think more It is better to think of a normal heart.
Like Confucius, Mencius, Tolstoy...etc, they are great and small, they also die but they have souls, they haven't lost their beliefs...just they don't have the opportunity to argue about misunderstood
things It's obvious, its black and white characters are too rigid, and it is easy for human beings to misunderstand...
ps: I think that a person as smart as Tolstoy can't be wrong, just live and live...

View more about The Last Station reviews

Extended Reading
  • Everett 2022-04-23 07:03:46

    When I read The Stars of Man, I was looking forward to the last chapter of Tolstoy's life being a movie. Now, Tolstoy has become a movie, although it is a bit off topic, can Dostoevsky be far behind? Is the male lead's love scene redundant?

  • Bailee 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    Just like two extremes, rational and emotional. In fact, no one is wrong whether it is Tolstoy's wife or a close friend. They are just from their own perspective, and it has become an unbearable pain for Tolstoy who is caught in the middle. Love and freedom, how beautiful, but misunderstanding its meaning, but contrary to it.

The Last Station quotes

  • Valentin: Love and be loved. That's the only reality there is in the world.

    Masha: He said that?

    Valentin: Yes, Tolstoy said it, but l'm saying it.

  • Leo Tolstoy: "Your youth and your desire for happiness reminds me cruelly of my age and the impossibility of happiness for me." When I was courting Sofya, she was so young and pure, it seemed impossible that I'd ever have her. I didn't want to tell her how I felt and I wanted to tell her nothing else. So I wrote down a string of letters and asked her if she could decipher them. She looked completely confused, thinking it was a game or... I gave her one clue. The firs two Y's, I said, stand for "your youth" and then the most miraculous thing happened. She simply spoke the phrase, my phrase as if she had read my mind. In that moment, we both knew we would always be together. For those first years, we were incredibly happy, terrifyingly happy.