“What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.”

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”

“It was all so strange, so unlike what he had been looking forward to.”

“Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.”

“Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.”

“And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.”

“There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.”