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Natasha, in her lilac silk dress trimmed with black lace walked, as women can walk, with the more repose and stateliness the greater the pain and sham...more

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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

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If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

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Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life and avoid it as much as possible.

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Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement.

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Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new.

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I’ve never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter with the ringlets ...more

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I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

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Men never understand what honor is, though they're always talking about it

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They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

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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 a...more

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I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kep...more

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Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brot...more

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He had never thought the question over clearly, but vaguely imagined that his wife had long suspected him of being unfaithful to her and was looking t...more

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But when, as is most often the case, the husband and wife accept the external obligation to live together all their lives and have, by the second mont...more