Anna Karenina

Book · 8 characters · 802 quotes · 2012

Quotes from Anna Karenina

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"One should never trust appearances"
Dolly Oblonskaya Wisdom
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"In the depths of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer"
Levin Hope
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"The heart wants what it wants"
Anna Karenina
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"Nature has made us unequal, and it is futile to pretend otherwise"
Karenin Nature
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"His suffering was genuine and profound"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"She could not reconcile herself to her position"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Work is the curse of the drinking classes"
Stiva Oblonsky Work
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"I know the truth; it is as plain as day"
Anna Karenina Truth
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"Hypocrisy is the tribute which vice pays to virtue"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Philosophy
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"Beauty without goodness is not attractive to me"
Levin Beauty
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"We are all fools in love"
Dolly Oblonskaya Love
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"Everything is dark and hopeless in my soul"
Anna Karenina
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"Freedom was the only possible happiness"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Freedom
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"I cannot be other than I am"
Alexei Vronsky
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"The essence of any change must lie in the fact that such a change must be inevitable"
Levin Change
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"He is unhappy because he seeks happiness"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Happiness
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"What is this passion but the worst of all passions?"
Karenin Love
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"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Adventure
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"The chief thing is to be sincere"
Kitty Shcherbatskaya Truth
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"Forgive me! I am tormented and I torment others"
Levin
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"One can't live on love alone"
Anna Karenina Love
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"The man she loved was not the same as the man she had married"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Relationships
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"I think... that if vice and goodness are only a matter of circumstance, then there are no sins"
Alexei Vronsky Philosophy
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"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Family
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"He felt that he was not himself, but some other man had entered into him"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"We are defined not by our circumstances but our choices."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Motivation
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"Gratitude transforms perspective entirely."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Gratitude
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"The pursuit of meaning gives shape to existence."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Philosophy
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"Truth emerges in solitude."
Levin Solitude
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"Fear is the shadow of possibility."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Fear