Character: Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky

- O moralist! But you must understand, there are two women: one insists only on her rights, and those rights are your love, which you can't give her; while the other sacrifices everything for you and demands nothing. What do you do? What to do? There was a terrible drama.
- If you want my confession about this, I'll tell you what I don't believe there was drama. And here's why. In my mind, love... both love, which you remember Plato defines in his Banquet, both of love serve as a touchstone for people. Some people only understand one other. And those who only know neoplatonically love's in vain to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no drama. "I'm much obliged for the gratification, my humble respects", and that the whole drama. And in Platonic love there can be no tragedy, because in that love all is clear and pure, because...