Living a life of luxury obscures true understanding of existence.

Evidence

I renounced the life of my own class, for I had come to confess that it was not a real life, only the semblance of one, that its superfluous luxury prevented the possibility of understanding life, and that in order to do so I must know, not an exceptional parasitic life, but the simple life of the working-classes, the life which fashions that of the world, and gives it the meaning which the working-classes accept. — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 181

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 181
• XREF: connects to: Living morally reveals deeper truths about life and existence. — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 155; Life’s meaning cannot be found in external achievements alone. — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 48; Luxury originally meant freedom from necessity, not consumption. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 117

Broader Connections

• Life’s meaning cannot be found in external achievements alone. #expands (0.75) — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 48