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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

Book by Leo Tolstoy · 8 quotes · Feels, Ifs, Wanted

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“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.”