Anna Karenina

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Quotes from Anna Karenina

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"She was caught between two worlds, belonging to neither."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"The world does not change; we change."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Change
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"He had never felt so alive, so real, so free."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Happiness
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"I forgave everything; forgive me too."
Anna Karenina
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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Truth
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"The more I live, the more I want to know."
Levin Education
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"He felt himself drowning in the sea of his own emotions."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Fear
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"She understood that she was powerless."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Power
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"What is past is past. I must think only of what is now."
Levin Time
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"The question of how not to live had been solved for him even more definitively."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Death
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"I cannot live without knowing you exist."
Alexei Vronsky Love
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"His heart was not in it."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"She lived in a world of contradictions."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"The only absolute knowledge attainable by us is that life is meaningless."
Levin Philosophy
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"I cannot be indifferent to his fate."
Anna Karenina Relationships
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"If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Love
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"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shade."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Life
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"She was ashamed of what she had done, ashamed of the very thing that had made her happiest."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Beauty
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"No one and nothing can bind me; I am free."
Alexei Vronsky Freedom
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"I want to know life as it really is."
Levin Knowledge
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"It seemed to her that she had lost everything."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"One can imagine anything about the past, but the present one cannot imagine otherwise than as it is."
Anna Karenina Time
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"I love you, but I am afraid of you."
Kitty Shcherbatskaya Love
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"The happy families are all alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Family
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"What have I done? What is to be done with my life?"
Levin Life
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"He was incapable of lying, or of doing anything dishonorable."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"She could not admit she had nothing to live for."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Life
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"When one is unhappy one exaggerates one's unhappiness."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Wisdom
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"There is something not human in this woman."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Strength
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"I simply feel that this cannot be right."
Anna Karenina Truth