Leo Tolstoy. Sunday (№ 462724)

It was completely the opposite of what happened before. Before, it was necessary to figure out what to do, and the interest of the matter was always the same - Dmitry Ivanovich Nekhlyudov; and yet, despite the fact that all the interest of life was then concentrated on Dmitry Ivanovich, all these affairs were boring. Now all the cases concerned other people, and not Dmitry Ivanovich, and everyone was interesting and fascinating, and there was an abyss of these cases.