Anna Karenina

Book · 8 characters · 802 quotes · 2012

Quotes from Anna Karenina

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"I cannot live with this duplicity any longer."
Anna Karenina Truth
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"People can endure anything if they have something to believe in."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Faith
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"The diversity of the world is due to the diversity of desires."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Philosophy
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"Love is life."
Levin Love
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"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Wisdom
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"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Life
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"Forgiveness is divine, but it is also human"
Dolly Oblonskaya
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"A man must discover his own purpose in life"
Levin
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"Love and duty cannot always coexist"
Anna Karenina
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"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Truth
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"We are all prisoners of our own desires"
Alexei Vronsky Freedom
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"To be alive is to suffer"
Karenin Life
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"Faith is not something one can force upon another"
Levin Faith
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"She loved him; that was all that mattered"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Love
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"The past is prologue to the future"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) History
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"Every family contains multitudes"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Family
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"I seek not happiness but truth"
Levin Wisdom
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"To understand is to forgive"
Dolly Oblonskaya
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"She was his first love, and therefore his only true love"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Love
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Perseverance
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"I cannot live as I have been living"
Levin Change
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"Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions"
Anna Karenina Love
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"There is no greater deception than self-deception"
Levin Truth
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"Every person has their own burden to bear"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Strength
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"I am dying of boredom"
Stiva Oblonsky
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"To live truly is to live with purpose"
Levin Life
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"Jealousy is the disease of the soul"
Alexei Vronsky
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"She was beautiful, but her beauty concealed a void within"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Beauty
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"The past cannot be undone"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Time
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"I am but a man, subject to all human weaknesses"
Karenin