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Anna Karenina

intensified it, instead of removing it. It was an inner
irritation, grounded in her mind on the conviction that his
love had grown less; in his, on regret that he had put
himself for her sake in a difficult position, which she,

instead of lightening, made still more difficult. Neither of
them gave full utterance to their sense of grievance, but
they considered each other in the wrong, and tried on
every pretext to prove this to one another.
In her eyes the whole of him, with all his habits, ideas,
desires, with all his spiritual and physical temperament, was
one thing—love for women, and that love, she felt, ought
to be entirely concentrated on her alone. That love was
less; consequently, as she reasoned, he must have
transferred part of his love to other women or to another
woman—and she was jealous. She was jealous not of any
particular woman but of the decrease of his love. Not
having got an object for her jealousy, she was on the
lookout for it. At the slightest hint she transferred her
jealousy from one object to another. At one time she was
jealous of those low women with whom he might so
easily renew his old bachelor ties; then she was jealous of
the society women he might meet; then she was jealous of
the imaginary girl whom he might want to marry, for
whose sake he would break with her. And this last form of

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