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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: willingly treated them as old male monkeys treat young ones if he
could have done it. He would have torn all mental power, every
capacity, from other men, so that they should not interfere with
the display of his talents. He behaved well only to those who
bowed before him. Now, on the journey he behaved well to
Kondratieff, who was influenced by his propaganda; to Vera
Doukhova and pretty little Grabetz, who were both in love with
him. Although in principle he was in favour of the woman's
movement, yet in the depth of his soul he considered all women
stupid and insignificant except those whom he was sentimentally
in love with (as he was now in love with Grabetz), and such women
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