Status Updates From Fathers and Children

be that their prayers, their tears are fruitless? Can it be that love, sacred, devoted love, is not all-powerful? Oh, no! However passionate, sinning, and rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, the flowers growing over it peep serenely at us with their innocent eyes; they tell us not of eternal peace alone, of that great peace of 'indifferent' nature; tell us too of eternal reconciliation and of life without end.

he maintains the opinion that the peasants ought to be 'brought to comprehend things,' that is to say, they ought to be reduced to a state of quiescence by the constant repetition of the same words); and yet, to tell the truth, he does not give complete satisfaction either to the refined gentry..nor of the uncultivated gentry, who unceremoniously curse 'the damned 'mancipation.' He is too soft-hearted for both sets.

“‘What? Are you seriously thinking of handling, of dealing with the whole people?’
‘From a penny candle, you know, Moscow burned down,’ answered Bazarov.”
These 19th century Russians were pretty prophetic, I’m learning.

Levin’s farm optimization chapters were my favorite parts of Anna Karenina, so I’m glad it seems like I’ll get a little bit more 19th century Russian agriculture content with Fathers & Sons 🤪