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Jealousy
For the first minute she had been offended at his jealousy; she was angry that the slightest amusement, even the most innocent, should be forbidden her; but now she would readily have sacrificed, not merely such trifles, but everything, for his peace of mind, to save him from the agony he was suffering.- Kitty from [...]
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Letters
Countess Lidia Ivanovna usually wrote some two or three letters a day to Alexey Alexandrovitch. She enjoyed that form of communication, which gave opportunity for a refinement and air of mystery not afforded by their personal interviews. -Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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Freethinker
But he’s a queer fish, and quite without breeding. You know, one of those uncouth new people one’s so often coming across nowadays, one of those free-thinkers you know, who are reared _d’emblee_ in theories of atheism, scepticism, and materialism. In former days,” said Golenishtchev, not observing, or not willing to observe, that both Anna [...]
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Tags: classics, education, free-thought, pop culture
Second Life
And looking round, he met her eyes, and from their expression he concluded that she was understanding it just as he was. But this was a mistake; she almost completely missed the meaning of the words of the service; she had not heard them, in fact. She could not listen to them and take them [...]
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Tags: cycle, life, marriage
Classical Education
“I cannot quite agree with that,” responded Alexey Alexandrovitch “It seems to me that one must admit that the very process of studying the forms of language has a peculiarly favorable influence on intellectual development. Moreover, it cannot be denied that the influence of the classical authors is in the highest degree moral, while, unfortunately, [...]
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Tags: classics, education, morals, science
Special Shade of Opinion
It was past five, and several guests had already arrived, before the host himself got home. He went in together with Sergey Ivanovitch Koznishev and Pestsov, who had reached the street door at the same moment. These were the two leading representatives of the Moscow intellectuals, as Oblonsky had called them. Both were men respected [...]
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Tags: distinction, opinion, same party
Present Living
All My Past Life… All my past life is mine no more, The flying hours are gone, Like transitory dreams given o’er, Whose images are kept in store, By memory alone. What ever is to come is not, How can it then be mine? The present moment’s all my lot, And that as fast as [...]
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Tags: past, present, time, truth
Ambition
Ambition was the old dream of his youth and childhood, a dream which he did not confess even to himself, though it was so strong that now this passion was even doing battle with his love. His first steps in the world and in the service had been successful, but two years before he had [...]
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Tags: ambition, anna karenina, tolstoy
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