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  1. Leo Tolstoy _ The Kreutzer Sonata

    In the city the wretched feel less sad. One can live there a hundred years without being noticed, and be dead a long time before anybody will notice it.
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  2. Leo Tolstoy _ The Kreutzer Sonata

    As soon as a young man advances toward a woman, directly he falls under the influence of this opium, and loses his head. Long ago I felt ill at ease when I saw a woman too well adorned,-whether a woman of the people with her red neckerchief and her looped skirt, or a woman of our own society in her ball-room dress. But now it simply terrifies me. I see in it a danger to men, something contrary to the laws; and I feel a desire to call a policeman, to appeal for defence from some quarter, to demand that this dangerous object be removed.
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  3. Leo Tolstoy _ The Kreutzer Sonata

    Every man experiences what you call love for every pretty woman and least of all for his wife. That is what the proverb says, and it is a true one. "Another's wife is a swan, but one's own is bitter wormwood.
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  4. Leo Tolstoy _ The Kreutzer Sonata

    They abolish the external form, they suppress the formal sales of slaves, and then they imagine and assure others that slavery is abolished. They are unwilling to see that it still exists, since people, as before, like to profit by the labor of others, and think it good and just. This being given, there will always be found beings stronger or more cunning than others to profit thereby. The same thing happens in the emancipation of woman. At bottom feminine servitude consists entirely in her assimilation with a means of pleasure. They excite woman, they give her all sorts of rights equal to those of men, but they continue to look upon her as an object of sensual desire, and thus they bring her up from infancy and in public opinion.
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  5. Leo Tolstoy _ The Kreutzer Sonata

    But when, as is most often the case, the husband and wife accept the external obligation to live together all their lives and have, by the second month, come to loathe the sight of each other, want to get divorced and yet go on living together, it usually ends in that terrible hell that drives them to drink, makes them shoot themselves, kill and poison each other"
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  6. Leo Tolstoy _ The Kreutzer Sonata

    «But you are talking of physical love. Do you not admit a love based upon a conformity of ideals, on a spiritual affinity?» «Why not? But in that case it is not necessary to procreate together {excuse my brutality}.»
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  7. Leo Tolstoy _ The Kreutzer Sonata

    Este incredibil cât de completă este iluzia care ne face să credem că frumuseţea este în genere bunătate.
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  8. Leo Tolstoy _ The Kreutzer Sonata

    Music makes me forget myself, my real position; it transports me to some other position not my own. Under the influence of music it seems to me that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I can do what I cannot do. I explain it by the fact that music acts like yawning, like laughter: I am not sleepy, but I yawn when I see someone yawning; there is nothing for me to laugh at, but I laugh when I hear people laughing.Music carries me immediately and directly into the mental condition in which the man was who composed it. My soul merges with his and together with him I pass from one condition into another, but why this happens I don't know.
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  9. Leo Tolstoy _ The Kreutzer Sonata

    Another's wife is a white swan, and ours is bitter wormwood.
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  10. Leo Tolstoy _ The Kreutzer Sonata

    I killed the wife when I first tasted sensual joys without love, and then it was that I killed my wife.
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  11. Leo Tolstoy _ The Kreutzer Sonata

    Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life
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  12. Leo Tolstoy _ The Kreutzer Sonata

    I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.
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