Anna Karenina

But it is hard for a discontented man not to reproach someone else, especially the very one who is closest to him, for his discontent.

Levin had often noticed in arguments between the most intelligent people that after enormous efforts, and endless logical subtleties and talk, the arguers would finally come to the awareness that what they had been at such pains to prove to one another had long ago, from the beginning of the argument, been known to both, but that they loved differe