Quotes from book

Anna Karenina

“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.”

“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.”

“There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.”

“Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actions! They are all but grains of sand”

“All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.”

“He knew she was there by the joy and fear that overwhelmed his heart.”

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

“Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.”

“Love those you hate you.”

“… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.”

“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”

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

“she smiled at him, and at her own fears.”

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

“I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.”

“Enough or not… it will have to do”

“it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”

“He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.”

“Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light all around her.”