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Anna Karenina

Chapter 10

When Levin thought what he was and what he was
living for, he could find no answer to the questions and
was reduced to despair, but he left off questioning himself
about it. It seemed as though he knew both what he was
and for what he was living, for he acted and lived
resolutely and without hesitation. Indeed, in these latter
days he was far more decided and unhesitating in life than
he had ever been.
When he went back to the country at the beginning of
June, he went back also to his usual pursuits. The
management of the estate, his relations with the peasants
and the neighbors, the care of his household, the
management of his sister’s and brother’s property, of
which he had the direction, his relations with his wife and
kindred, the care of his child, and the new bee-keeping
hobby he had taken up that spring, filled all his time.
These things occupied him now, not because he
justified them to himself by any sort of general principles,
as he had done in former days; on the contrary,
disappointed by the failure of his former efforts for the
general welfare, and too much occupied with his own

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