If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
("War and Peace")
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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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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