From Varenka she understood that you had only to forget yourself and love others and you would be calm, happy and beautiful.

side of classical education that advantage you just mentioned: its moral or – disons le mot*– antinihilistic10 influence.’

Some mathematician said that the pleasure lies not in discovering the truth, but in searching for it.’

‘If you want my opinion concerning that, I’ll tell you that I don’t think there is a drama here. And here’s why. To my mind, love … the two loves that Plato, remember, defines in his Symposium,25 these two loves serve as a touchstone for people.

slovenliness

antediluvian

sophisms.

think … if there are as many minds as there are men, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.’

All these traces of his life seemed to seize hold of him and say to him: ‘No, you won’t escape us and be different, you’ll be the same as you were: with doubts, an eternal dissatisfaction with yourself, vain attempts to improve, and failures, and an eternal expectation of the happiness that has eluded you and is not possible for you.’