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Work is the inevitable condition of human life the true source of human welfare.

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Art is a human activity consisting in this that one man consciously by means of external signs hands on to others feelings he has worked through ...more

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You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference.

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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

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it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

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But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired of...more

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But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

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When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish at his loneliness, his bodily idleness, his hosti...more

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But in the depths of his heart, the older he became, and the more intimately he knew his brother, the more and more frequently the thought struck him ...more

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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have...more

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Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent.

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At the point where he, today's Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so real melted away now before his eyes and turned into...more

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He suffered from an unlucky faculty—common to many men, especially Russians—the faculty of seeing and believing in the possibility of good and truth, ...more

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Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a ...more