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Art infects only when the author has himself experienced the feeling he transmits
Drawn from what Leo Tolstoy said
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- Leo Tolstoy Russian novelist and moral philosopher (1828 to 1910)
But an artistic impression, i.e. infection, is only received when an author has, in the manner peculiar to himself, experienced the feeling which he transmits, and not when he passes on another man’s feeling previously transmitted to him.
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↗What Is Art? (1897-1898; Aylmer Maude translation)gutenberg.org
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