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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: "Please do not smoke."
"Oh, leave me alone," he said angrily, and lit a cigarette, but
at once began to cough and to retch, as if he were going to be
sick. Having cleared his throat though, he went on:
"What we have been doing is not the thing at all. Not to argue,
but for all to unite--to destroy them--that's it."
"But they are also human beings," said Nekhludoff.
"No, they are not human, they who can do what they are doing--
No-- There, now, I heard that some kind of bombs and balloons
have been invented. Well, one ought to go up in such a balloon
and sprinkle bombs down on them as if they were bugs, until they
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