Levin smiled slightly. Stepan Arkadyevich laughed outright. There's a fearful tragedy in it. If you care for my profession of faith as regards that, I'll tell you that I don't believe there was any tragedy about it. And this is why.
Some men only understand one sort, and some only the other.
And those who only know the nonplatonic love talk in vain of tragedy. At that instant Levin recollected his own sins and the inner conflict he had lived through. I positively don't know. That's your quality and your failing. All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.