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> [“if they hadn’t 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’s eyes, and Constantine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/if-they-hadn-t-both-been-pretending-but-had-had-what-is-called-a/)

[Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/)

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> [“Art is bad when ‘you 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”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-carmichael/art-is-bad-when-you-see-the-intent-and-get-put-off-goethe-in-tolstoy/)

[Joel Carmichael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-carmichael/)

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