I did become a little depressed that I won't be able to read everything I'd like to before I die, but then I thought that at least I'm on the journey and I've been rewarded with my choices so far.
I too would like to get to Tolstoy, but I'm not sure when that will actually be. If I don't, I don't, but at least I got to The Brothers Karamazov (for example) and I really enjoyed that.
You do what you can - and then you die. Luckily, we have so little importance to the world and to the universe that our failure to accomplish everything is guaranteed to go unnoticed by existence.
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