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Anna Karenina

Chapter 23

In order to carry through any undertaking in family
life, there must necessarily be either complete division
between the husband and wife, or loving agreement.
When the relations of a couple are vacillating and neither
one thing nor the other, no sort of enterprise can be
undertaken.
Many families remain for years in the same place,
though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply
because there is neither complete division nor agreement
between them.
Both Vronsky and Anna felt life in Moscow
insupportable in the heat and dust, when the spring
sunshine was followed by the glare of summer, and all the
trees in the boulevards had long since been in full leaf, and
the leaves were covered with dust. But they did not go
back to Vozdvizhenskoe, as they had arranged to do long
before; they went on staying in Moscow, though they
both loathed it, because of late there had been no
agreement between them.
The irritability that kept them apart had no external
cause, and all efforts to come to an understanding

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