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“if they hadn’t both been pretending, but had had what is called a heart-to-heart talk, that is, simply told each other just what they were thinking and feeling, then they would just have looked into each other’s eyes, and Constantine would only have said: ‘You’re dying, dying, dying!’ – while Nicholas would simply have replied: ‘I know I’m dying, but I’m afraid, afraid, afraid!’ That’s all they would have said if they’d been talking straight from the heart. But it was impossible to live that way, so Levin tried to do what he’d been trying to do all his life without being able to, what a great many people could do so well, as he observed, and without which life was impossible: he tried to say something different from what he thought, and he always felt it came out false, that his brother caught him out and was irritated by it.”

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Author:Leo Tolstoy
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“Wait, wait,' he began, interrupting Oblonsky. 'Aristocratism, you say. But allow me to ask, what makes up this aristocratism of Vronsky or whoever else it may be - such aristocratism that I can be scorned? You consider Vronsky an aristocrat, but I don't. A man whose father crept out of nothing by wiliness, whose mother, God knows who she didn't have liaisons with... No, excuse me, but I consider myself an aristocrat and people like myself, who can point to three or four honest generations in their families' past, who had a high degree of education (talent and intelligence are another thing), and who never lowered themselves before anyone, never depended on anyone, as my father lived, and my grandfather. And I know many like that. You find it mean that I count the trees in the forest, while you give away thirty thousand to Ryabinin; but you'll have rent coming in and I don't know what else, while I won't, and so I value what I've inherited and worked for... We're the aristocrats, and not someone who can only exist on hand-outs from the mighty of this world and can be bought for twenty kopecks. 'But who are you attacking? I agree with you,' said Stepan Arkadyich sincerely and cheerfully, though he felt Levin included him among those who could be bought for twenty kopecks.”

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Book:ANNA KARENINA
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“...Karısını öpmek istemiş, Kiti onu itmişti. - Neyin var? Kiti hem sakin görünmek, hem de onu iğnelemek isteğiyle: - Senin keyfin yerinde... -diye söze başlamıştı. Ancak ağzını açar açmaz anlamsız bir kıskançlığın sitemleri, pencerenin önünde oturarak hiç kımıldamadan geçirdiği bu yarım saatte onu üzen ne varsa hepsi dışarı fırlamıştı. Düğünden sonra Kiti'yi kiliseden çıkarırken anlamadığı şeyi şimdi, şu anda ilk kez açıkça anlamıştı. Kiti'nin ona sadece yakın olmadığını, aynı zamanda Kiti'nin nerede, kendisinin nerede başladığını artık bilmediğini anlamıştı. Bunu, o anda hissettiği acı veren ikiye bölünme duygusundan anlamıştı. İlk anda gücenmişti, ama hemen o saniyede Kiti tarafından incitilemeyeceğini, Kiti'nin onun ta kendisi olduğunu hissetmişti. İlk anda birdenbire sırtına güçlü bir yumruk yiyip, suçluyu bulmak için öfkeyle ve öç almak isteğiyle başını arkaya çeviren ve kazara kendi kendisine vurduğuna, ortada kızacak kimse olmadığına, buna katlanmak ve acısını azaltmak gerektiğine inanan bir adamın hissettiğine benzer bir duyguya kapılmıştı.”

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Author:Tolstoy, Leo
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