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Anna Karenina

this would inevitably be logically proved to him, and he
awaited the proofs.
The argument turned out to be far simpler than he had
expected.

‘If you admit that it is a benefit,’ said Sergey
Ivanovitch, ‘then, as an honest man, you cannot help
caring about it and sympathizing with the movement, and
so wishing to work for it.’
‘But I still do not admit this movement to be just,’ said
Konstantin Levin, reddening a little.
‘What! But you said just now..’
‘That’s to say, I don’t admit it’s being either good or
possible.’
‘That you can’t tell without making the trial.’
‘Well, supposing that’s so,’ said Levin, though he did
not suppose so at all, ‘supposing that is so, still I don’t see,
all the same, what I’m to worry myself about it for.’
‘How so?’
‘No; since we are talking, explain it to me from the
philosophical point of view,’ said Levin.
‘I can’t see where philosophy comes in,’ said Sergey
Ivanovitch, in a tone, Levin fancied, as though he did not
admit his brother’s right to talk about philosophy. And
that irritated Levin.

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