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Quote by Leo Tolstoy
English (Source)
Why is the gospel dearer to us than anything else? Because it is a work of art: it contains parables, it speaks of God's consciousness. How can I like a description of someone walking through the woods and kissing a girl's hand? It's a trifle. The weakness of the upper classes is that they attach importance to these things to justify the life they lead. Man cannot live without art, just as he cannot live without food. But just as it is not good to attach great importance to food and to eat as sweet as possible, so it is with poetry and beauty. The less food there is, the cleaner and better it is, as in the case of art.