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“I believe that this lesson on fate is one of the main functions of fiction, and constitutes the paradigmatic value of fictional characters, saints of the secular community - and also of many believers.

Only the fact that Anna Karenina inevitably dies makes her fondly, imperiously and obsessively present as the melancholy companion of our existence, even though she never physically existed.”