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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but th...more

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

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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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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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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