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Anna Karenina

‘I am trying to find means of working productively for
myself and for the laborers. I want to organize...’ he
answered hotly.
‘You don’t want to organize anything; it’s simply just as

you’ve been all your life, that you want to be original to
pose as not exploiting the peasants simply, but with some
idea in view.’
‘Oh, all right, that’s what you think—and let me
alone!’ answered Levin, feeling the muscles of his left
cheek twitching uncontrollably.
‘You’ve never had, and never have, convictions; all you
want is to please your vanity.’
‘Oh, very well; then let me alone!’
‘And I will let you alone! and it’s high time I did, and
go to the devil with you! and I’m very sorry I ever came!’
In spite of all Levin’s efforts to soothe his brother
afterwards, Nikolay would listen to nothing he said,
declaring that it was better to part, and Konstantin saw
that it simply was that life was unbearable to him.
Nikolay was just getting ready to go, when Konstantin
went in to him again and begged him, rather unnaturally,
to forgive him if he had hurt his feelings in any way.

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