“In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one...”
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Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and thereby exposes herself to the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness.
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Leo Tolstoy
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“In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one...”
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“And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.”
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“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.”
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“It's hard to love a woman and do anything.”
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“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
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“Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.”
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“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.”
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“As if tears were the necessary lubricant without which the machine of mutual communication could not work successfully, the two sisters, after these tears, started talking, not about what pr...”
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“Toate familiile fericite se aseamănă între ele. Fiecare familie nefericită este nefericită în felul ei.”
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“God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...”
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