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Anna Karenina

Chapter 3

Levin had on this visit to town seen a great deal of his
old friend at the university, Professor Katavasov, whom he
had not seen since his marriage. He liked in Katavasov the
clearness and simplicity of his conception of life. Levin
thought that the clearness of Katavasov’s conception of life
was due to the poverty of his nature; Katavasov thought
that the disconnectedness of Levin’s ideas was due to his
lack of intellectual discipline; but Levin enjoyed
Katavasov’s clearness, and Katavasov enjoyed the
abundance of Levin’s untrained ideas, and they liked to
meet and to discuss.
Levin had read Katavasov some parts of his book, and
he had liked them. On the previous day Katavasov had
met Levin at a public lecture and told him that the
celebrated Metrov, whose article Levin had so much liked,
was in Moscow, that he had been much interested by
what Katavasov had told him about Levin’s work, and that
he was coming to see him tomorrow at eleven, and would
be very glad to make Levin’s acquaintance.
‘You’re positively a reformed character, I’m glad to
see,’ said Katavasov, meeting Levin in the little drawing

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