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Mother

CHAPTER XVI
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But for comrades, for the cause, I am capable of everything.

I'd even kill.

I'd kill my own son." "Oh, Andriusha!" the mother exclaimed under her breath.
He smiled and said: "It can't be helped! Such is our life!" "Ye-es," Pavel drawled.

"Such is our life." With sudden excitation, as if obeying some impulse from within, Andrey arose, waved his hands, and said: "How can a man help it?
It so happens that we sometimes must abhor a certain person in order to hasten the time when it will be possible only to take delight in one another.

You must destroy those who hinder the progress of life, who sell human beings for money in order to buy quiet or esteem for themselves.


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