Anna Karenina

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

"When one is in love, one should be prepared for anything."

"The beginning of all wisdom is the recognition of one's ignorance."

"He was happy and unhappy in one and the same moment."

"Passion is the element in which we live; without it, what is life?"

"We change and are always changing, and to accept this is to find peace."

"It is a characteristic of the Russian spirit to question everything."

"The degree of freedom from fear and pain that we find will be in exact proportion to the degree in which we cultivate faith."

"One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love."

"I love my children, yet I deceive myself about them daily."

"Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the question of what we shall do with it."

"There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is the acknowledgment of the rights of all mankind."

"The task of an artist is not to resolve the question but to put it correctly."

"We are forced to make choices, and each choice defines our character."

"Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life."

"What constitutes a happy life? Is it wealth, fame, or righteousness? It must be some harmony of all three."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

"Time is the most precious thing we have; we cannot make more of it."

"Freedom is only granted when you cease to ask for it."

"I have everything—wealth, position, beauty—and yet I am miserable."

"The greater the state of disorder in the family, the more the need for order, for love."

"One can love a person dear to one without ceasing to love God."

"To advance in life you must give the impression of success."

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

"The man could not even tell her what it was that had made him cross; all he knew was that something had happened to disturb his mood."

"I am not afraid of death. I am afraid of living."

"Conscious human beings cannot relinquish their consciousness."

"Nothing is so necessary as to know oneself."

"The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists."

"Patience is the virtue of the strong."