Anna Karenina

Book · 8 characters · 802 quotes · 2012

Quotes from Anna Karenina

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"Money cannot buy happiness, but it can buy freedom."
Dolly Oblonskaya Money
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"The pursuit of power often leads to the loss of peace."
Alexei Vronsky Power
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"History repeats itself, but the details always change."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) History
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"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Creativity
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"A leader is one who serves others with humility and integrity."
Levin Leadership
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"Faith is not about knowing what is right; it is about doing what is right."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Faith
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"Music is the language of the soul."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Music
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"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Work
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"We suffer most in imagination than in reality."
Levin Fear
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"Death is but a natural part of life's great cycle."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Death
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"Forgiveness is not the absence of anger, but the presence of love."
Dolly Oblonskaya Kindness
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"The most important thing is what we do with the time that is given to us."
Levin Time
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"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Nature
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"I believe that to be happy is to love and be loved."
Kitty Shcherbatskaya Happiness
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"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
Alexei Vronsky Love
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"In our dreams we are true to ourselves."
Anna Karenina Dreams
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"Each soul is accountable for its own actions."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Philosophy
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"To know oneself is the beginning of all wisdom."
Levin Knowledge
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Strength
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"Only those who have experienced true love know what life really means."
Kitty Shcherbatskaya Love
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"People are not born for happiness; happiness must be earned."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Happiness
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"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."
Levin Change
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"Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting."
Dolly Oblonskaya Patience
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"I want to know life and its secrets while there is still time."
Anna Karenina Dreams
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"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Art
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"Beauty without love is like a landscape without sky."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Beauty
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"There is something in the human spirit that will not be bound by any chains."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator) Freedom
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"We cannot live only for ourselves."
Levin Wisdom
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"Everything I know, I know because of love."
Anna Karenina Love
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"The worst thing is to sit by and do nothing."
Levin Courage