dust-became

Updated: May 21, 2025

And destiny cannot be driven out with a stick. Of each of us the destiny is unhasting. It moves slowly and quietly, and can never be avoided. 'Wait, it says. 'Seek not to press onward." "Similarly, the Kapustins, once a powerful family, came at length to dust-became as nothing. It was a family the members of which were ever in favour of change, and devoted to anything that was new.

Maksim Gorky - Through Russia