russia perfection by pain
No one who lived in modern Russia could possibly realise his perfection except by pain. A few Russian artists have realised themselves in Art; in a fiction that is mediaeval in character, because its dominant note is the realisation of men through suffering. A Russian who lives happily under the present system of government in Russia must either believe that man has no soul, or that, if he has, it is not worth developing.
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pain provisional mode of realisation
The terrible truth that pain is a mode through which man may realise himself exercises a wonderful fascination over the world, it is rarely in the