Some of what Tolstoy is saying: “That the object of life is self-perfection – the perfection perfecting of (course) immortal souls — that this is the only object of man’s life is seen to be correct by the fact alone that every other object is senseless in view of death. Therefore the question whether thou hast done what thou shouldst have done is of immense importance, for the only meaning of thy life is in doing in this short term allowed thee …”
