Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.


Tolstoy: War and Peace (p. 192) - Classics Revisited (1968)


Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.

Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.

Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.

Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.