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Anna Karenina

‘She was here yesterday. She was very indignant with
the high school people on Grisha’s account. The Latin
teacher, it seems, had been unfair to him.’
‘Yes, I have seen his pictures. I didn’t care for them

very much,’ Levin went back to the subject she had
started.
Levin talked now not at all with that purely businesslike
attitude to the subject with which he had been talking all
the morning. Every word in his conversation with her had
a special significance. And talking to her was pleasant; still
pleasanter it was to listen to her.
Anna talked not merely naturally and cleverly, but
cleverly and carelessly, attaching no value to her own ideas
and giving great weight to the ideas of the person she was
talking to.
The conversation turned on the new movement in art,
on the new illustrations of the Bible by a French artist.
Vorkuev attacked the artist for a realism carried to the
point of coarseness.
Levin said that the French had carried conventionality
further than anyone, and that consequently they see a great
merit in the return to realism. In the fact of not lying they
see poetry.

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