by Leo Tolstoy
He felt like a man who had had a tooth out that had been hurting him for a long time. After terrible pain and a sensation of something enormous, larger than his whole head, being pulled out of his jaw, he suddenly, scarcely able to believe his good fortune, feels that the thing that had so long been poisoning his existence and absorbing all his attention is no longer there, and he can again live, think, and be interested in other things beside his tooth. It was this sort of feeling that Karenin experienced. The pain had been strange and terrible, but now it was gone; he felt he could live again and think not only of his wife alone.
from Anna Karenina
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