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Quotation from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
“but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.”
Anna Karenina, Part Eight, Chapter 19, trans. Constance Garnett (1901)
Levin's closing reflection, in the last chapter, on the faith he has found.
Citation: "but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it." — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part Eight, Chapter 19, trans. Constance Garnett (1901). (id anna-karenina-q2)
Portrait: L.N.Tolstoy Prokudin-Gorsky, Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, Public domain.
