He did not believe a word of what Oblonsky was saying, and for all his arguments had scores of refutations ready; yet he listened, feeling that those words expressed that coarse and mighty power which overruled his life and to which he would have to submit.
No creía en ninguna de las palabras de Oblonsky, se le ocurrían mil objeciones a cada una y, con todo, le escuchaba, sintiendo que en ellas se expresaba aquella fuerza incontrastable y enorme que guiaba ahora su vida y a la que tenía que obedecer.