but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to …

Leo Tolstoy
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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 (2016). Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged), p.696, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
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