| the tension of happiness |
[Feb. 21st, 2009|11:12 pm] |
"Then relatives arrived, and that blissful tumult began from which Levin did not escape till the day after his wedding. Levin felt constantly awkward, bored, but the tension of happiness went on, ever increasing. He kept feeling that much that he did not know was demanded of him, and he did everything he was told and it all made him happy. He thought that his engagement would have nothing in common with others, that the ordinary conditions of engagement would spoil his particular happiness; but it ended with him doing the same things as others, and his happiness was only increased by it and became more and more special, the like of which had never been known and never would be. ... The extraordinary thing was not only that everyone loved him, but that all formerly unsympathetic, cold, indifferent people admired him and obeyed him in all things, treated his feeling with tenderness and delicacy, and shared his conviction that he was the happiest man in the world because his fiancee was the height of perfection. And Kitty felt the same..."
leo tolstoy ~ anna karenina |
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Are you actually reading all these books or just picking out some quotes from them?
I'm re-reading "War and peace" at the moment ;-)
I'm reading them :-P
By quoting them here it is my way of sharing quotes from books that I thought were notable, so it's like a quoteroll. | |
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