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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy: "I always remembered myself, was aware of myself, always
divined rightly or wrongly what others thought about me and felt
toward me; and this spoiled the joy of life for me. This was
probably the
¹Dmitry. My father's brother Dmitry died in 1856;
Nikolái died September 20, 1860.
² That is to say, his eyes went always on the straightest
road to attain satisfaction for himself.
reason why I particularly delighted in the opposite of this in
other people; namely, directness of egoism. That is what I
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