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“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there’s no forcing it.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“Every heart has its own skeletons.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“Everything intelligent is so boring.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“If you love me as you say you do, make it so that I am at peace.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“They’ve got no idea what happiness is, they don’t know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us there is no life.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
