Sublime

who was apparently not wicked but had become a most insufferable crank from sheer idleness.

In Nekhludoff, as in all people, there were two beings; one spiritual, who sought only such happiness for himself as also benefited others; and the animal being, seeking his own happiness for the sake of which he is willing to sacrifice that of the world.

“Ruth

debonair

In snaring people on his line, the devil will place all kinds of different baits. But the idle person has no need of baits – he will make for the bare hook. Tolstoy

Tatyana and Onegin, Anna and Vronsky, Ivan and Vera: at every step, the riddle of human behavior and the nature of love appeared bound up with Russian.

чрезвычайно долго тер мылом обе щеки, подперши их извнутри языком;

Sergei Ivanovich, who knew like no one else how to add some Attic salt8 to the end of a most abstract and serious discussion

Here the devil is struggling with God, and the battlefield is the human heart.