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They played Beethoven's 'Kreutzer Sonata.' Do you know the first presto? Do you know it? Ah!
— Pozdnyshev · Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata, Chapter XXIII, translated by Benjamin R. Tucker (1890)
A terrible thing is that sonata, especially the presto! And a terrible thing is music in general.
— Pozdnyshev · Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata, Chapter XXIII, translated by Benjamin R. Tucker (1890)
Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own.
— Pozdnyshev · Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata, Chapter XXIII, translated by Benjamin R. Tucker (1890)
a man, in short, observant of the external rules of dignity, with that special Parisianism that is revealed in buttoned boots, a gaudy cravat, and that something which foreigners pick up in Paris
— Pozdnyshev · Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata, Chapter XIX, translated by Benjamin R. Tucker (1890)
You have accomplished what you desired. You have killed me.
— Pozdnyshev's wife, dying · Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata, Chapter XXVIII, translated by Benjamin R. Tucker (1890)

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