Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)

"His heart was not in it."

"The question of how not to live had been solved for him even more definitively."

"She understood that she was powerless."

"He felt himself drowning in the sea of his own emotions."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"He had never felt so alive, so real, so free."

"The world does not change; we change."

"She was caught between two worlds, belonging to neither."

"Whatever is, is right."

"He looked at her as if seeing her for the first time."

"The force that drew them together was stronger than will."

"Do not seek for truth; let truth seek you."

"She had learned to wear a mask in public."

"The human heart has hidden chambers."

"Beauty is a form of genius—is higher, indeed, than genius."

"He was moved by something beyond his understanding."

"We are all capable of error."

"She was no longer interested in being happy; she only wanted peace."

"Every person must make peace with their own past."

"Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord."

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

"Everyone wants to change the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

"The terrible thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible."

"There is something special in the eyes of a man who loves."

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

"Man can endure anything if he has something to believe in."

"The flesh is willing, but the spirit is weak."

"The old life and the new had not yet blended."

"Art is a lie that enables us to realize the truth."

"The happy man needs a goal, toward which he strives."