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By Leo Tolstoy
Now I say that I know the meaning of my life: ‘To live for God, for my soul.’ And this meaning, in spite of its clearness, is mysterious and marvelous.
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- Anna Karenina (translated by Constance Garnett), Part Eight, Chapter 12
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- Translated by Constance Garnett; Project Gutenberg text, eBook #1399
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From Anna Karenina (Part Eight, Chapter 12), in Constance Garnett's English translation. These are the thoughts of Levin, a character in the novel, as the narrator reports them, not Tolstoy speaking in his own voice. Tolstoy wrote in Russian, so this is the translator's wording.