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Quote by Leo Tolstoy
English (Source)
What a terrible poison to the mind is contemporary literature, especially to the youth of the people! First, they cloud their memory with the vague, confident, empty chatter of those who write for contemporaneity. The greatest evil of this talk is that it is made up of allusions, quotations from the most diverse, newest and oldest writers. The words of Plato, Hegel, Darwin are quoted, about which the writers have not even the faintest idea, alongside the words of a Gorky, Andreev, Artabasev and others, about which we don't even deserve to have an idea. In the second place, this talk is harmful because it imposes on the mind and leaves neither room nor leisure for the knowledge of the ancient writers, who have endured for thousands of years, not just ten or a hundred.