Anna Karenina

"We cannot live only for ourselves."

"Love without return is poisonous."

"A man can endure anything if it is his own choosing."

"Real feelings cannot be feigned."

"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow."

"I have long ceased to belong to myself."

"The mystery of life is not in living. It is living wrongly or rightly."

"One can never be alone with everybody."

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

"I cannot be other than what I am."

"The phrase about life imitating art is, strictly speaking, untrue."

"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."

"Work is the medicine for all earthly troubles."

"Jealousy is the shadow of love."

"The greatest luxury is to be free to choose one's path."

"Peace comes not from the absence of conflict but from acceptance."

"To be alive is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in the suffering."

"The past cannot be changed, only the future."

"In an ideal marriage, partners grow together, not apart."

"The heart wants what it wants."

"There is a law that compels all beings to endure all the trials they can bear."

"Nature is our great teacher if we would only listen."

"The pursuit of happiness is the root of all unhappiness."

"To know life, to know mankind, one must read deeply and widely."

"Deceit is a poison that destroys everything it touches."

"Love is not just a feeling, it is a deliberate choice."

"Each man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to be true to it."

"The difficulty is not in dying, but in living."

"We are poisoned by civilization."

"Suffering is the one thing people will do anything to avoid."