Anna Karenina

Book · 8 characters · 802 quotes · 2012

Quotes from Anna Karenina

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"She could not reconcile her past with her present."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Change
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"Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Family
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"Work is the only thing that saves us."
Levin Work
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"Loving is painful because it means being vulnerable."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Love
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"What is the use of talking when words cannot convey what must be felt?"
Dolly Oblonskaya Relationships
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"She felt that she was not living her own life."
Anna Karenina Freedom
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"The presence of the problem was enough."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Truth
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"Man can endure anything, but not meaninglessness."
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"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Levin Perseverance
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"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Friendship
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"Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Hope
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"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Knowledge
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"It is difficult to be a widow and mother simultaneously."
Dolly Oblonskaya Family
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"All who are happy are happy in the same way; all who are unhappy are unhappy in different ways."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Happiness
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"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else is the hardest battle."
Levin Courage
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"Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Hope
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"The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Wisdom
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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Anna Karenina Truth
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"Strength does not come from winning."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Strength
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"The question of how to live is the first question of philosophy."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Philosophy
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"We are all fools in love."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Love
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"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Levin Work
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"Forgive them, for they know not what they do."
Karenin
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"What could be more important than knowing that you're going to be dead in a hundred years anyway?"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Death
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"The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole but is reflected in her soul."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Beauty
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"To live is to suffer, but to survive is to find meaning in it."
Levin Perseverance
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"Patience is a virtue, but only in those who have nothing better to do."
Alexei Vronsky Patience
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"The more you control people, the more they resent you."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Power