Having lost his interlocutor Levin continued the conversation with the landowner, trying to prove to him that all our difficulties arise from the fact that we do not wish to understand the characteristics and habits of our labourers; but the landowner, like everybody who thinks individually and in solitude, was obtuse to other thoughts and tenacious of his own.
Pero, como todos los hombres que piensan con independencia y viven aislados, el propietario era muy reacio a admitir las opiniones ajenas y se atenía en exceso a las propias.