Closing Passage: Levin's Faith

From Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The novel ends not with Anna but with Levin's spiritual epiphany, finding meaning through faith and goodness rather than reason.
Part 8, Chapter 19

Levin's concluding meditation: "my life now, my whole life, independently of anything that may happen to me, every moment of it, is no longer meaningless as it was before, but has an unquestionable meaning of goodness with which I have the power to invest it."

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Part 8, Chapters 10-12

Levin's conversation with the peasant Fyodor about Platon who "lives for his soul" triggers his religious awakening.

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