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Anna Karenina

But it was not merely a falsehood, it was the cruel jeer
of some wicked power, some evil, hateful power, to
whom one could not submit.
He must escape from this power. And the means of

escape every man had in his own hands. He had but to cut
short this dependence on evil. And there was one means—
death.
And Levin, a happy father and husband, in perfect
health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the
cord that he might not be tempted to hang himself, and
was afraid to go out with his gun for fear of shooting
himself.
But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang
himself; he went on living.

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