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Days like these

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20071108
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8 NOVERMBER 1889

Leo Tolstoy writes in his diary: "Got up late. Tried to write about art, but it's no good. Played patience - a sort of madness. Read. A talk with the children about servants, a letter from Lyova [his son], and our entire way of life made me think: our life with its slave workers, with our servants, seems natural to us ... We even think, as the children said, 'After all, nobody makes him, he became a man-servant of his own accord'; and as the teacher said, 'If a man feels no humiliation at emptying my slops, then I'm not humiliating him'; and we think that we're quite liberal ...

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