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Anna Karenina

unmistakable reply to the mother’s question, a voice quite
unlike the subdued voices speaking in the room. It was the
bold, clamorous, self-assertive squall of the new human
being, who had so incomprehensibly appeared.

If Levin had been told before that Kitty was dead, and
that he had died with her, and that their children were
angels, and that God was standing before him, he would
have been surprised at nothing. But now, coming back to
the world of reality, he had to make great mental efforts to
take in that she was alive and well, and that the creature
squalling so desperately was his son. Kitty was alive, her
agony was over. And he was unutterably happy. That he
understood; he was completely happy in it. But the baby?
Whence, why, who was he?... He could not get used to
the idea. It seemed to him something extraneous,
superfluous, to which he could not accustom himself.

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