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Anna Karenina

Golenishtchev, who felt that he had nothing to say, and
continually deceived himself with the theory that his idea
was not yet mature, that he was working it out and
collecting materials. This exasperated and tortured

Golenishtchev, but Vronsky was incapable of deceiving
and torturing himself, and even more incapable of
exasperation. With his characteristic decision, without
explanation or apology, he simply ceased working at
painting.
But without this occupation, the life of Vronsky and of
Anna, who wondered at his loss of interest in it, struck
them as intolerably tedious in an Italian town. The palazzo
suddenly seemed so obtrusively old and dirty, the spots on
the curtains, the cracks in the floors, the broken plaster on
the cornices became so disagreeably obvious, and the
everlasting sameness of Golenishtchev, and the Italian
professor and the German traveler became so wearisome,
that they had to make some change. They resolved to go
to Russia, to the country. In Petersburg Vronsky intended
to arrange a partition of the land with his brother, while
Anna meant to see her son. The summer they intended to
spend on Vronsky’s great family estate.

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