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Anna Karenina


                                  united them was so intense that they were both oblivious
                                  of everything else but their love.
                                     He vividly recalled all the constantly recurring instances
                                  of inevitable necessity for lying and deceit, which were so

                                  against his natural bent. He recalled particularly vividly the
                                  shame he had more than once detected in her at this
                                  necessity for lying and deceit. And he experienced the
                                  strange feeling that had sometimes come upon him since
                                  his secret love for Anna. This was a feeling of loathing for
                                  something—whether for Alexey Alexandrovitch, or for
                                  himself, or for the whole world, he could not have said.
                                  But he always drove away this strange feeling. Now, too,
                                  he shook it off and continued the thread of his thoughts.
                                     ‘Yes, she was unhappy before, but proud and at peace;
                                  and now she cannot be at peace and feel secure in her
                                  dignity, though she does not show it. Yes, we must put an
                                  end to it,’ he decided.
                                     And for the first time the idea clearly presented itself
                                  that it was essential to put an end to this false position, and
                                  the sooner the better. ‘Throw up everything, she and I,
                                  and hide ourselves somewhere alone with our love,’ he
                                  said to himself.







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