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Anna Karenina

which is ready to rise as one man and ready to sacrifice
itself for its oppressed brethren; that is a great step and a
proof of strength.’
‘But it’s not only making a sacrifice. but killing Turks,’

said Levin timidly. ‘The people make sacrifices and are
ready to make sacrifices for their soul, but not for murder,’
he added, instinctively connecting the conversation with
the ideas that had been absorbing his mind.
‘For their soul? That’s a most puzzling expression for a
natural science man, do you understand? What sort of
thing is the soul?’ said Katavasov, smiling.
‘Oh, you know!’
‘No, by God, I haven’t the faintest idea!’ said Katavasov
with a loud roar of laughter.
‘‘I bring not peace, but a sword,’ says Christ,’ Sergey
Ivanovitch rejoined for his part, quoting as simply as
though it were the easiest thing to understand the very
passage that had always puzzled Levin most.
‘That’s so, no doubt,’ the old man repeated again. He
was standing near them and responded to a chance glance
turned in his direction.
‘Ah, my dear fellow, you’re defeated, utterly defeated!’
cried Katavasov good-humoredly.

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