“”I imagine,” he said, “that no sort of activity is likely to be lasting if it is not founded on self-interest, that’s a universal principle, a philosophical principle,” he said, repeating the word “philosophical” with determination, as though wishing to show that he had as much right as any one else to talk of philosophy.” Some mathematician has said that enjoyment lies in the search for truth, not in the finding it.” “”Perhaps because I rejoice in what I have, and don’t fret for what I haven’t,” said Levin, thinking of Kitty.” “”But that’s just the aim of civilization- to make everything a source of enjoyment.”” “He walked down, for a long while avoiding looking at her as at the sun, but seeing her, as one does the sun, without looking.” But for Levin she was as easy to find in that crowd as a rose among nettles.” There was apparently nothing striking either in her dress or her attitude. She was standing talking to a lady at the opposite end of the ground. “He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. “It seemed to each of them that the life he led himself was the only real life, and the life led by his friend was a mere phantasm.” That answer is: one must live in the needs of the day- that is, forget oneself.” “There was no solution, but that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble.
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