Anna Karenina Quotes

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What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

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And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

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How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her loving him, now felt unhappy because she loved him too much!

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I’ve never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter with the ringlets are vermin to my mind, and all fallen women are the same.’ ‘But the Magdalen?’ ‘Ah, drop th...

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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

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has no meaning, or it has a very wrong meaning. How

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was serene. Her Moscow troubles had become a memory to her.

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Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands.

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What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it.

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Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

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Din orice situatie exista o iesire

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Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actions! They are all but grains of sand

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Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbor and not to throttle him?. They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason...

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There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

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Maybe its because i rejoice over what i have and don't grieve over what i don't have".

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Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.

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He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

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