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(1895) Author: Anne Charlotte Leffler, Sofja Kovalevskaja Translator: Louise von Cossel
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heard them. Perhaps her trembling hands
would have clasped the cross, which has
comforted so many hearts in the hour of death, and
which she had always loved as a symbol of
human suffering. But nothing! nothing! No
word of comfort, no help, no loving hand on the
feverish brow—alone in a foreign country, with
a tortured heart, hopeless, perhaps trembling for
the unknown—such was her end on earth—this
‘soul of fire and soul of thought.’

.                .                .                .                .



Out of the hopeless gloom which, during my
first grief, seemed to surround this death-bed
now and then a ray of light would emerge.

Whether life be long or short does not signify
so much, all depends upon its fruitfulness to
ourselves and to others. And seen from this
point of view, Sonia’s life was longer than most
people’s; she had lived intensely, drunk deep
draughts of the wells of joy and grief, and of
the treasures of science, had reached heights to
which only imagination can lift one; and she
had made others share in the treasures of her
heart, her experience and her fancy. Hers was
the kindling voice which belongs to genius, if it
does not isolate itself in egotism. Nobody who
lived with her, for ever so short a time, could

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