Anna Karenina

"One must learn to separate people from their actions."

"The beauty of her face was in her eyes."

"True freedom is impossible without a just cause."

"Every act of love is a work of peace, however small."

"I have understood that life does not consist in the pleasures we receive, but in the ends we achieve."

"Death is the only thing we can be sure of in life."

"She spoke with that peculiar vivacity which characterized her manner."

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

"One can't live only on love."

"How good it would be to escape from all this conventional life."

"The presence of the contradiction did not trouble him."

"What is this passion of yours for changing everything around you?"

"Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it."

"Real life happens in moments of grace."

"The chief thing is to be patient."

"Conscience is the voice of the soul."

"The task of art is to make us understand life better."

"I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are."

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

"She had the gift of making any subject interesting by her passionate interest in it."

"The ideal of family life was so deeply rooted in Russian society that no one could deny its importance."

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

"To know yourself is to begin the path to wisdom"

"A conscience is a valuable thing when properly cultivated"

"Society's rules are chains we willingly wear"

"Time heals only those willing to be healed"

"The greatest power is the power to forgive"

"Work gives meaning to existence"

"Nature is indifferent to human suffering"

"Jealousy is a disease of the soul"