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Anna Karenina

‘I know your and Sergey Ivanovitch’s aristocratic
views. I know that he applies all the power of his intellect
to justify existing evils.’
‘No; and what do you talk of Sergey Ivanovitch for?’

said Levin, smiling.
‘Sergey Ivanovitch? I’ll tell you what for!’ Nikolay
Levin shrieked suddenly at the name of Sergey Ivanovitch.
‘I’ll tell you what for.... But what’s the use of talking?
There’s only one thing.... What did you come to me for?
You look down on this, and you’re welcome to,—and go
away, in God’s name go away!’ he shrieked, getting up
from his chair. ‘And go away, and go away!’
‘I don’t look down on it at all,’ said Konstantin Levin
timidly. ‘I don’t even dispute it.’
At that instant Marya Nikolaevna came back. Nikolay
Levin looked round angrily at her. She went quickly to
him, and whispered something.
‘I’m not well; I’ve grown irritable,’ said Nikolay Levin,
getting calmer and breathing painfully; ‘and then you talk
to me of Sergey Ivanovitch and his article. It’s such
rubbish, such lying, such self-deception. What can a man
write of justice who knows nothing of it? Have you read
his article?’ he asked Kritsky, sitting down again at the

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