“ Above all, I wouldn’t want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don’t want to prove anything, I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven’t I?
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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“ But that had been grief and this was joy. But that grief and this joy were equally outside all ordinary circumstances of life, were like holes in this ordinary life, through which something higher showed.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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“ My life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it!
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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“ Reality had only veiled for a time the inner peace he had found, but it was intact within him.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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“ His despair was increased by the awareness that he was utterly alone with his grief.
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“ Energy is based on love. And love can’t be drawn from just anywhere, it can’t be ordered.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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“ In order to undertake anything in family life, it is necessary that there be either complete discord between the spouses or loving harmony. But when the relations between spouses are uncertain and there is neither one nor the other, nothing can be undertaken.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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“ The most difficult thing in that situation was that he simply could not connect and reconcile his past with what there was now.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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“ There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.
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