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Apr 16

“Because a correct thought cannot fail to bear fruit.” Levin, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Pg. 344

Apr 15

“Every man, knowing to the smallest detail all the complexity of the conditions surrounding him, involuntarily assumes that the complexity of these conditions and the difficulty of comprehending them are only his personal, accidental peculiarity, and never thinks that others are surrounded by the same complexity as he is.” Of Vronsky, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Pg. 322

Apr 14

“He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes in the world like those. There was no other being in the world capable of concentrating for him all the light and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.” Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Pg. 227

Apr 13

“From Varenka she understood that you had only to forget yourself and love others and you would be calm, happy and beautiful.” Of Kitty, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Pg. 224

Apr 12

“Maybe it’s because I rejoice over what I have and don’t grieve over what I don’t have.” said Levin, remembering Kitty.” Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Pg. 162

Apr 11

“Now he experienced a feeling similar to what a man would feel who was calmly walking across a bridge over an abyss and suddenly saw that the bridge had been taken down and below him was the bottomless deep. This bottomless deep was life itself, the bridge the artificial life that Alexei Alexandrovich had lived.” Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, pg. 143

Apr 10

“All the terror of the blizzard seemed still more beautiful to her now. He had said the very thing that her soul desired but that her reason feared.” Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Pg. 103

Apr 9

“Levin barely remembered his mother. His notion of her was a sacred memory, and his future wife would have to be, in his imagination, the repetition of that lovely, sacred ideal of a woman which his mother was for him.” Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Pg. 95

Apr 8

“He felt he was himself and he did not want to be otherwise. He only wanted to be better than he had been before.” Of Levin, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Pg. 92

Apr 7

“It was as if a surplus of something so overflowed her being that expressed itself beyond her will, now in the brightness of her glance, now in her smile.” Of Anna, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Pg. 61

Apr 6

“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.” Oblonsky, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Pg. 42

Apr 5

“There’s one consolation, as in that prayer I’ve always loved, that I may be forgiven not according to my deserts, but out of mercy. That’s also the only way she can forgive me.” Levin, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Pg. 39

Apr 4

“…The terrible thing is that we older men, who already have a past…not of love, but of sins…suddenly become close with a pure, innocent being; it’s disgusting, and so you can’t help feeling yourself unworthy.” Levin, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Pg. 39

Apr 3

“Stepan Arkadyich smiled. He knew so well this feeling of Levin’s, knew that for him all the girls in the world were divided into two sorts: one sort was all the girls in the world except her, and these girls had all human weaknesses and were very ordinary girls; the other sort was her alone, with no weaknesses and higher than everything human.” Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Pg. 37

Apr 2

“And for him (Stepan Arkadyich), who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary has having a hat.” Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Pg. 7

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