( LEO TOLSTOY ) ( ANNA KARENINA )
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.”
“There are as many minds as there are heads.”
“There are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.”
“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
“Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!”
“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”
“It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”
“If you love me as you say you do, make it so that I am at peace.”
“I don’t want to prove anything, I just want to live.”
“It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.”
“The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.”
“Love those who hate you.”
“Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.”
“I’m like a starving man who has been given food.”
“There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed.”
“Enough or not – it will have to do.”
“I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now.”
“Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people–that’s in your hands.”
“I don’t allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.”
“There can be no peace for us, only misery.”
“The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it.”
“One must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious.”
“We are all created to be miserable.”
“When one sees the truth, what is one to do?”
“You’re not going to get away with it.”
“Where love ends, hate begins.”
“I’m afraid I’m becoming ridiculous.”
“Command me to disappear, and I disappear.”
“You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.”
“I can’t think of you and myself apart.”
“Whomever the gods wish to destroy, they first drive mad.”
“They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.”
“It is terrible but true.”
“When you understand that you will die tomorrow, if not today, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant.”
“What’s all this arguing? No one ever convinces anyone else.”
“I didn’t know you were going.”
“Ideas, work - it’s all dust and ashes.”
“I have nothing but you, remember that.”
“There is something in me, hateful, repulsive.”
“I don’t get on with other people.”
“No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position.”
“It means such a great deal to me, far more than you can understand.”
“You have conquered me, and I am yours.”
“If you could ever forget and forgive what happened.”
“I have never ceased to love you.”
“It is as if all that was good in me has hidden itself, and only what is horrid remains.”
“That only shows you have no heart.”
“I hate them all, and you, and myself.”
“Vengeance is mine, I will repay.”
“It’s all the same to me.”
“I don’t imagine that I shan’t appreciate your choice.”
“I’m not living, I’m waiting for a solution.”
“If one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.”
“The one sure and never-failing resource —-; slander.”
“If I succeed not, still I will have known happiness.”
“I must ask what it is you want of me.”
“I want love, and there is none.”
