The Paths of Russian Love. Part III – The Torn Age. Yury Tomin

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all sides,» but doubts his correct «moral attitude»

Примечания

1

Another bestselling self-development book from Jay Shetty, The 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go (2023) takes the deep foundations of love from the Vedic tradition and offers a mastery of love lessons through the four stages of life.

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A little more than ten years later, Gorky will become world famous, will take a lifetime companion well-known Moscow beauty, actress Maria Andreeva, befriends Lenin, and even the harshest literary critics recognize his writing talent.

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Maria Ignatievna Zakrevskaya (married Countess von Benckendorff, then Baroness von Budberg) was the mistress of British diplomat and secret service agent Bruce Lockart. She was idolized and proposed for marriage by Maxim Gorky and Herbert Wells. It was said of her that she «was an aristocrat», «the russiest of Russians» and «knew how to love men.»

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Perhaps among these fatal mistakes was the use of morphine, from the strong addiction to which the first wife helped to get rid of, and complicity in her two abortions.

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Goethe’s Faust’s assurance that his beloved Margarita is not malicious in the death of her mother, brother, and the disposal of her newborn coincides with the «voice from above»: «Saved!»

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José Ortega y Gasset’s etudes On Love were published in the Spanish newspaper between 1926 and 1927.

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In Preface to the Works of Guy de Maupassant (1894) Leo Tolstoy recognizes the artistic talent of the French writer, «who so sincerely believed that all the good, the whole meaning of life in a woman, in love, and with such a force of passion described a woman and her love from all sides,» but doubts his correct «moral attitude» to life. Therefore, his novels «bear the stamp of indifference, haste, fiction» and «for us it is still completely incomprehensible how all husbands are always fools, cocus and ridicules (cuckolds and comical), and all lovers who eventually marry and become husbands, not only not ridicules and not cocus, but heroic? And even less clear is the way in which all women are promiscuous and all mothers are saints?» Tolstoy sympathizes with Maupassant as a talented writer who had, but failed to realize the most noble intentions: «He wanted to praise love, but the more he learned, the more he cursed it. He curses it for the disasters and sufferings that it brings with it, and for those disappointments, and, most importantly, for that counterfeit of true love, for the deception that is in it and from which the more a person suffers, the more gullible he surrenders to this deception.»

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The meaning of the non-defilement of the ancestral bloodline was that «the blood of those born should be increasingly purified and their kinship, closeness with him, the only father of all that exists, should increase.»


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