The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories


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everything, and they have really discovered a way. When, then, will  
these rascals with their lies be uncrowned! It is high time. We have had  
enough of them. People go mad, and shoot each other with revolvers, and  
always because of that! And how could it be otherwise?  
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One would say that the animals know that descent continues their race,  
and that they follow a certain law in regard thereto. Only man does not  
know this, and is unwilling to know it. He cares only to have as much  
sensual enjoyment as possible. The king of nature,--man! In the name of  
his love he kills half the human race. Of woman, who ought to be his aid  
in the movement of humanity toward liberty, he makes, in the name of his  
pleasures, not an aid, but an enemy. Who is it that everywhere puts a  
check upon the progressive movement of humanity? Woman. Why is it so?  
"For the reason that I have given, and for that reason only."  
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