Anna Karenina

“I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.”

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”

“Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.”

“Love those you hate you.”

“We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.”

“Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the impression she had made on him gave him...”

“To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.”

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

“They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.”

“If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.”

“I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.”

“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.”

“Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time, in an infinity of matter, and an infin...”

“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.”

“Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.”

“The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end ever...”

“And where love ends, hate begins”

“Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuou...”

“He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it”

“A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard. And the candle by which she had read the book that was filled with fears, with deceptions, with anguish, and with evil, fl...”

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

“He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.”

“As his father saw it, he did not want to learn what was taught. But in fact, he could not learn it. He could not, because there were demands in his soul that were more exacting for him than...”