Just fancy! One can hear and see the grass growing, ' thought Levin, as he noticed wet slate-coloured aspen leaf move close to the point of a blade of grass.

Leo Tolstoy
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The snow falling outside was falling just the same as the snow falling in the forest. Levin noticed that when he was in the forest, snow would be falling in many places at once. He noticed that when he was in town, snow would be falling only in one place at a time. When he was in the forest, snow fell where it would.

But when he was in town, snow would fall only where it was supposed to. Levin noticed this because he knew how the world worked.

Source: Anna Karenina

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