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Anna Karenina

Leo TolstoyOriginal title Анна Каренина (Russian, 1877)

Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Many writers consider Anna Karenina the greatest work of literature ever, and Tolstoy himself called it his first true novel. It was initially released in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger.

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“I am not strange but I feel queer. I am like that sometimes. I feel like crying all the time. It is very silly but it will pass.”

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“The Kingdom of God is Within You”

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“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”

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

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“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.”

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“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."

- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}”

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“And where love ends, hate begins”

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“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?”

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“It's hard to love a woman and do anything.”

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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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“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”

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“What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it.”

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“I think that to find out what love is really like, one must first make a mistake and then put it right.”

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“Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.”

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“These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.”

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“We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?”

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“Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands.”

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

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