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Anna Karenina

‘Well, that’s a good one!’ said Shtcherbatsky, laughing;
‘why, I’m only just getting ready to begin.’
‘Yes, I thought the same not long ago, but now I know
I shall soon be dead.’

Levin said what he had genuinely been thinking of late.
He saw nothing but death or the advance towards death in
everything. But his cherished scheme only engrossed him
the more. Life had to be got through somehow till death
did come. Darkness had fallen upon everything for him;
but just because of this darkness he felt that the one
guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched
it and clung to it with all his strength.

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