"Calm had come to her during her final years. Her husband's dream for her had in part come true, that transformation for which he would have sacrificed all his fame. My father's ideas had become less alien to her. She had become a vegetarian. She was kind to those around her. But she had retained one weakness: she was still afraid of what people would say and write about her when she had gone, she feared for her reputation. As a result she never let slip the slightest opportunity of justifying her words and actions."
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Tatiana Sukhotina-Tolstaya, Tolstoy Remembered, trans. Derek Coltman (London: M. Joseph, 1977), p. 243.
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