“ Your wife gets older, while you’re full of life. Before you’ve time to look round, you feel that you can’t love your wife with love, however much you may esteem her. ”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877). copy citation
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
|---|---|
| Source | Anna Karenina |
| Topic | love self-esteem |
| Date | 1877 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by Constance Garnett |
| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1399/1399-h/1399-h.htm |
Context
““ It’s very well for you to talk like that; it’s very much like that gentleman in Dickens who used to fling all difficult questions over his right shoulder. But to deny the facts is no answer. What’s to be done—you tell me that, what’s to be done? Your wife gets older, while you’re full of life. Before you’ve time to look round, you feel that you can’t love your wife with love, however much you may esteem her. And then all at once love turns up, and you’re done for, done for, ”
Levin half smiled.
“ Yes, you’re done for, ” resumed Oblonsky. “ But what’s to be done? ” “ Don’t steal rolls. ”
“ Oh, moralist!” source
Levin half smiled.
“ Yes, you’re done for, ” resumed Oblonsky. “ But what’s to be done? ” “ Don’t steal rolls. ”
“ Oh, moralist!” source
