Leo Tolstoy, M. Glukhov. The Three Bears. Illustration of momma bear, daddy bear, and baby bear going out. “if they hadn’t both been pretending, but had had what is called a heart-to-heart talk, that is, simply told each other just what they were thinking and feeling, then they would just have looked into each other’s eyes, and Constantine would only have said: ‘You’re dying, dying, dying!’ – while Nicholas would simply have replied: ‘I know I’m dying, but I’m afraid, afraid, afraid!’ That’s all they would have said if they’d been talking straight from the heart. But it was impossible to live that way, so Levin tried to do what he’d been trying to do all his life without being able to, what a great many people could do so well, as he observed, and without which life was impossible: he tried to say something different from what he thought, and he always felt it came out false, that his brother caught him out and was irritated by it.” — Leo Tolstoy. Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.
/ דרײ בערנ /, ל. טאלסטאי ; פונ רוסיש, נ. שעכטמאנ ; צײכענונגענ, מ. גלוכאװ