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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: ...if I'd cared to. And, indeed, I did care to. There's some
one who's pleased with himself," she thought, as she saw a fat,
rubicund gentleman coming towards her. He took her for an
acquaintance, and lifted his glossy hat above his bald, glossy
head, and then perceived his mistake. "He thought he knew me.
Well, he knows me as well as any one in the world knows me. I
don't know myself. I know my appetites, as the French say. They
want that dirty ice-cream, that they do know for certain," she
thought, looking at two boys stopping an ice-cream seller, who
took a barrel off his head and began wiping his perspiring face
with a towel. "We all want what is sweet and nice. If not
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