Pozdnyshev quotes
A character in The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
5 quotes spoken by or about Pozdnyshev, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.
The Kreutzer Sonata
Leo Tolstoy
About Leo Tolstoy
They played Beethoven's 'Kreutzer Sonata.' Do you know the first presto? Do you know it? Ah!
A terrible thing is that sonata, especially the presto! And a terrible thing is music in general.
Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own.
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
You have accomplished what you desired. You have killed me.
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