[The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoi]@TWC D-Link book
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

CHAPTER XII
23/43

Do you think that all the evil in the world is the work of one man alone?
No! it requires two persons to work much evil in the world.

You see only the bad in Gavryl's character, but you are blind to the evil that is in your own nature.

If he alone were bad and you good, then there would be no wrong." The old man, after a pause, continued: "Who tore Gavryl's beard?
Who destroyed his heaps of rye?
Who dragged him into court ?--and yet you try to put all the blame on his shoulders.

You are behaving very badly yourself, and for that reason you are wrong.

I did not act in such a manner, and certainly I never taught you to do so.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books