At these words Levin suddenly grew warm, for at the bottom of his heart he felt that it was true – true that he wished to balance between communism and the existing forms of life, and that this was hardly possible.
Levin d’un tratto s’accalorò a queste parole, perché in fondo all’anima temeva che ciò fosse vero, vero il fatto ch’egli in fondo volesse tenersi in equilibrio tra il comunismo e le forme passate, e che questo fosse difficilmente possibile.