karenina

Art is bad when __ou see the intent and get put off._ (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and sees only the thing itself. from the book, On Retranslating A Russian Classic Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

if they hadn__ both been pretending, but had had what is called a heart-to-heart talk, that is, simply told each other just what they were thinking and feeling, then they would just have looked into each other__ eyes, and Constantine would only have said: __ou__e dying, dying, dying!_ _ while Nicholas would simply have replied: __ know I__ dying, but I__ afraid, afraid, afraid!_ That__ all they would have said if they__ been talking straight from the heart. But it was impossible to live that way, so Levin tried to do what he__ been trying to do all his life without being able to, what a great many people could do so well, as he observed, and without which life was impossible: he tried to say something different from what he thought, and he always felt it came out false, that his brother caught him out and was irritated by it.