Leo Tolstoy and the Cult of Simplicity

By Gilbert K. Chesterton & John C. Kenworthy

Release : 2021-02-15

Genre : Biographies & Memoirs, Books

Kind : ebook

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It is this consideration that lends a certain air of futility even to all the inspired simplicities and thunderous veracities of Tolstoy. We feel that a man cannot make himself simple merely by warring on complexity; we feel, indeed, in our saner moments that a man cannot make himself simple at all. A self-conscious simplicity may well be far more intrinsically ornate than luxury itself.

Leo Tolstoy and the Cult of Simplicity

By Gilbert K. Chesterton & John C. Kenworthy

Release : 2021-02-15

Genre : Biographies & Memoirs, Books

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
It is this consideration that lends a certain air of futility even to all the inspired simplicities and thunderous veracities of Tolstoy. We feel that a man cannot make himself simple merely by warring on complexity; we feel, indeed, in our saner moments that a man cannot make himself simple at all. A self-conscious simplicity may well be far more intrinsically ornate than luxury itself.

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