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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: poetry and aesthetic feeling and demands our worship--then we are
swallowed up by it completely, and worship animalism, no longer
distinguishing good from evil. Then it is awful."
Nekhludoff perceived all this now as clearly as he saw the
palace, the sentinels, the fortress, the river, the boats, and
the Stock Exchange. And just as on this northern summer night
there was no restful darkness on the earth, but only a dismal,
dull light coming from an invisible source, so in Nekhludoff's
soul there was no longer the restful darkness, ignorance.
Everything seemed clear. It was clear that everything considered
important and good was insignificant and repulsive, and that all
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