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"Yes, my boy, there is! There, do you see, you know the type of

Ossian's women.... Women, such as one sees in dreams.... Well,

these women are sometimes to be met in reality ... and these

women are terrible. Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that

however much you study it, it's always perfectly new."

"Well, then, it would be better not to study it."

"No. Some mathematician has said that enjoyment lies in the

search for truth, not in the finding it."

Levin listened in silence, and in spite of all the efforts he

made, he could not in the least enter into the feelings of his

friend and understand his sentiments and the charm of studying

such women.

Chapter 15