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Anna Karenina quotes

Leo Tolstoy

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“Anything's better than lying and deceit.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“And do you know, there's less charm in life, when one thinks of death, but there's more peace.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Some mathematician has said that enjoyment lies in the search for truth, not in the finding it.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be...” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“And where love ends, hate begins.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Every heart has its own skeletons” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“He was always in a hurry to speak, and seemed always to put his whole soul into what he was saying.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“He wants to show me that his love for me is not to interfere with his freedom.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Then she thought that life might still be happy, and how miserably she loved and hated him, and how fearfully her heart was beating.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.” 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
“Aren't we all flung into the world only to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and each other?” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“I think... of so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Spring is the time of plans and projects.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“When I was beginning to despair, and it seemed there would be no end—it's come! She loves me!” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“To educate the people three things are needed: schools, and schools, and schools.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“There was only one creature in the world that could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“He felt himself, and did not want to be any one else. All he wanted now was to be better than before.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“They haven't an idea of what happiness is; they don't know that without our love, for us there is neither happiness nor unhappiness—no life at all” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“If you love me, as you say, . . . do so that I may be at peace.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“The only happy marriages I know are marriages of prudence.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“We walked to meet each other up to the time of our love, and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions. And there's no altering that.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new.” 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
“It's hard to love a woman and do anything.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Love those that hate you...” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Love . . . Why I don't like the word is that it means too much to me, far more than you can understand” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“God gave the day, God gave the strength. And the day and the strength were consecrated to labor, and that labor was its own reward.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“The chief thing I shouldn't like would be for people to imagine I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Whether she feared or desired what had happened, or what was going to happen, and exactly what she longed for, she could not have said.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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