Anna Karenina

"Real life is not like books."

"Each person lives for himself, using freedom to attain his personal happiness."

"The absence of sensation is the death of feeling."

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

"If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed."

"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."

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

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

"I have lived, and I have done wrong."

"The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life."

"Life is everything. Life is God."

"He felt that he was not himself, but some other man."

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

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

"The heart wants what it wants."

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

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

"We are all capable of error."

"The meaning of life lies not in any form of power."

"He was moved by something beyond his understanding."

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

"I understand her completely, and that is why I cannot bear her."

"The human heart has hidden chambers."

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

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

"In every conceivable manner, the work of a woman is never done."

"I have decided to throw off the old self completely."

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

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

"Whatever is, is right."