"The vineyard workers had imagined that the vineyard where they had been sent to work for their master was their property; that everything in the vineyard had been made for them, so that they could enjoy life in that vineyard, forgetting their master and killing anyone who reminded them of him and their obligations towards him. “We do the same thing,” thought Nechljudov, 'living in the senseless belief that we are masters of our own lives, and that they are given to us for our pleasure. But this is clearly absurd. Because if we have been sent here, it is by someone's will and for some reason. Instead, we have decided that we live only for our own joy, and it is clear that we are suffering, just as the worker who does not do the master's will will suffer. And the master's will is expressed in these commandments. It is enough for men to put these commandments into practice, and the kingdom of God will be established on earth, and men will receive the supreme good that is accessible to them.""
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Lev Tolstoy, Resurrezione, translation into Italian by Emanuela Guercetti, Garzanti, Milano, 2002, explicit. ISBN 8811361575
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