Este incredibil cât de completă este iluzia care ne face să credem că frumuseţea este în genere bunătate.

“The very nastiest and coarsest, I can't tell you. It is not grief, not dullness…”

“I wrote everything into Anna Karenina, and nothing was left over.”

“The difference between what he had been then and what he now was, was enormous.…”

“Yes, I suppose so," answered Anna, as though wondering at the boldness of his q…”