Assertion: worker's life | /r/CapableOf | break into his ivory tower
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text: When, however, this life broke into his ivory tower and showed him that there is no refuge for the writer from the loathsomeness of capitalism, André Gide, who up to that time had sought for salvation from capitalism in solitude, made a step forward, a very difficult step for such an old, settled writer with such a settled view of the world, and courageously came over to our side.