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Anna Karenina

‘But why so?’
‘I shall not go later. Monday or never!’
‘What for?’ said Vronsky, as though in amazement.
‘Why, there’s no meaning in it!’

‘There’s no meaning in it to you, because you care
nothing for me. You don’t care to understand my life.
The one thing that I cared for here was Hannah. You say
it’s affectation. Why, you said yesterday that I don’t love
my daughter, that I love this English girl, that it’s
unnatural. I should like to know what life there is for me
that could be natural!’
For an instant she had a clear vision of what she was
doing, and was horrified at how she had fallen away from
her resolution. But even though she knew it was her own
ruin, she could not restrain herself, could not keep herself
from proving to him that he was wrong, could not give
way to him.
‘I never said that; I said I did not sympathize with this
sudden passion.’
‘How is it, though you boast of your
straightforwardness, you don’t tell the truth?’
‘I never boast, and I never tell lies,’ he said slowly,
restraining his rising anger. ‘It’s a great pity if you can’t
respect..’

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