OCTOBER
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Politics can never be the subject of poetry (Goethe).

Add Tolstoy quote to the Absurd as a model of illogical logic:
"If all the earthly goods for which we live, if all the joys that make up life, the riches, the fame, honor, power, are wrenched away by death, then these goods have no meaning. If life is not infinite, it's quite simply absurd, it's not worth living, and we must clear it away as quickly as possible by means of suicide." (Confessions.)

   But, later on, Tolstoy corrects himself: "The existence of death forces us either to give up on life voluntarily or to transform our life in such a way as to give it a meaning death can't wrench away from it."