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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: . . . but during the latter part of our life to-
gether, during the last fifteen years, our ways have
parted. I cannot think myself the guilty one; I
know that if I have changed it is not owing to
you, or to the world, but because I could not do
otherwise; nor can I judge you for not having
followed me, and I thank you for what you have
given me and will ever remember it with affection.
Adieu, my dear Sophie, I love you."
The personal isolation he craved was never to
be his; but the isolation of spirit essential to
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