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Lectures on Russian Literature / Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy

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    strength of Pushkin as a force in Russian literature comes from this his very weakness.
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    And the highest is only attainable not when our lives are guided by our gifts, but when our gifts are guided by our lives
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    And the highest is only attainable not when our lives are guided by our gifts, but when our gifts are guided by our lives.
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    . And the highest is only attainable not when our lives are guided by our gifts, but when our gifts are guided by our lives.
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    For Nature ever works in circles. Starting from health, the soul indeed in the end arrives at health, but only through the road of disease. And a good portion of the conscious period in the life of the soul is taken up by doubt, by despair, by disease.
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    the bed must be a most fatal place, since most people die in bed
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    The Russian writer is first of all in earnest
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    Faithfulness of labor and finish of form
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    Russians seem to have the instinctive sense of measure in personal matters.
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    The office of the Slavonic race has hitherto been passive, and its highest distinction has hitherto been solely either to serve as a sieve through which the vivifying waters of European thought shall pour upon the sleeping body of Asia, or as a dead wall to stem the wild devastating flow of Asiatic barbarism upon European civilization. The virtue of the Slavonic race is thus first of all passivity; and as the virtue of a pipe is to be smooth and hollow, so the virtue of the Russian is first of all passive receptivity.
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