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Levin strode along the highroad, absorbed not so le the he had experienced before

The words uttered by the peasant had acted on his soul like an

electric shock, suddenly transforle

whole the whole swarhts

that incessantly occupied his hts had

unconsciously been in hisabout the

land

He are of so, not yet knohat it was

"Not living for his oants, but for God? For what God? And

could one say anything more senseless than what he said? He said

that one must not live for one's oants, that is, that one

must not live for e understand, e are attracted by,

e desire, butincomprehensible, for

God, whom no one can understand nor even define What of it?

Didn't I understand those senseless words of Fyodor's? And

understanding them, did I doubt of their truth? Did I think them

stupid, obscure, inexact? No, I understood him, and exactly as