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Anna Karenina

were so far from being phantoms that they were positively
clinging on the ladder,’ said Levin. The comparison
pleased him, but he could not remember whether he had
not used the same phrase before, and to Pestsov, too, and

as he said it he felt confused.
Pestsov maintained that art is one, and that it can attain
its highest manifestations only by conjunction with all
kinds of art.
The second piece that was performed Levin could not
hear. Pestsov, who was standing beside him, was talking to
him almost all the time, condemning the music for its
excessive affected assumption of simplicity, and comparing
it with the simplicity of the Pre-Raphaelites in painting.
As he went out Levin met many more acquaintances, with
whom he talked of politics, of music, and of common
acquaintances. Among others he met Count Bol, whom
he had utterly forgotten to call upon.
‘Well, go at once then,’ Madame Lvova said, when he
told her; ‘perhaps they’ll not be at home, and then you
can come to the meeting to fetch me. You’ll find me still
there.’

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