Second Life

27Jan08

And looking round, he met her eyes, and from their expression he concluded that she was understanding it just as he was. But this was a mistake; she almost completely missed the meaning of the words of the service; she had not heard them, in fact. She could not listen to them and [...]

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Tags: cycle, life, marriage

Classical Education

23Jan08

“I cannot quite agree with that,” responded Alexey Alexandrovitch “It seems to me that one must admit that the very process of studying the forms of language has a peculiarly favorable influence on intellectual development. Moreover, it cannot be denied that the influence of the classical authors is in the highest degree moral, while, [...]

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Tags: classics, education, morals, science

Special Shade of Opinion

22Jan08

It was past five, and several guests had already arrived, before the host himself got home. He went in together with Sergey Ivanovitch Koznishev and Pestsov, who had reached the street door at the same moment. These were the two leading representatives of the Moscow intellectuals, as Oblonsky had called them. [...]

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Tags: distinction, opinion, same party

Understanding

21Jan08

Having once taken the subject up, he read conscientiously everything bearing on it, and intended in the autumn to go abroad to study land systems on the spot, in order that he might not on this question be confronted with what so often met him on various subjects. Often, just as he was beginning [...]

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Tags: arguments, research, studying, understanding, verifying

Present Living

05Jan08

All My Past Life…
All my past life is mine no more, The flying hours are gone, Like transitory dreams given o’er, Whose images are kept in store, By memory alone.
What ever is to come is not, How can it then be mine? The present moment’s all my lot, And that as fast as it is [...]

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Tags: past, present, time, truth

Ambition

03Jan08

Ambition was the old dream of his youth and childhood, a dream which he did not confess even to himself, though it was so strong that now this passion was even doing battle with his love. His first steps in the world and in the service had been successful, but two years before he had [...]

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Tags: ambition, anna karenina, tolstoy