Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.
("War and Peace")
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He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal.
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When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation.
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Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart from conditions of war and law, that look established human relations between the two men. At that moment an immense number of things passed dimly through both their minds, and they realized that they were both children of humanity and were brothers.
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