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"Yes, I knew your idea of the solution of the labor question"

"Not a bit: in Russia there can be no labor question In Russia

the question is that of the relation of the working people to the

land; though the question exists there too--but there it's a

what's been ruined, while with us"

Stepan Arkadyevitch listened attentively to Levin

"Yes, yes!" he said, "it's very possible you're right But I' bears, and working,

and interested Shtcherbatsky told me another story--heof nothing

but death"

"Well, what of it? I've not given up thinking of death," said

Levin "It's true that it's high time I was dead; and that all

this is nonsense It's the truth I' you I do value

my idea and my work awfully; but in reality only consider this:

all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of rown up on a tiny planet And for us to suppose we can have

soreat--ideas, work--it's all dust and ashes"

"But all that's as old as the hills, rasp this fully, then