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“The best works of art are the expression of man’s struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.
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From Economy of Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. Read the surrounding argument as well as the excerpt; its historical language and philosophical assumptions shape its meaning.
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Source: Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience , Economy
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