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Not in order to justify, but simply in order to explain my lack of consistency, I say: Look at my present life and then at my former life, and you wil...more

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Though the children did not know Levin well and did not remember when they had last seen him, they did not feel towards him any of that strange shynes...more

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Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

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Peaceful with six children Darya Alexandrova could not be...Rare indeed were the brief periods of peace...hard though it was for the mother to bear th...more

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...those children were already beginning to repay her care by affording her small joys. These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grain...more