“What if my whole life has been wrong?”
It occurred to him that what had appeared perfectly impossible before, namely that he had not spent his life as he should have done, might after all be true.
It occurred to him that his scarcely noticeable impulses, which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and the rest false.
And his professional duties and the whole arrangement of his life and of his family, and all his social and official interests, might all have been false.
He tried to defend all those things to himself and suddenly felt the weakness of what he was defending.
There was nothing to defend….
– Leo Tolstoy
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