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"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." ~ page 1

"This foolish smile he could not forgive himself." ~ Page 5

"There was no solution but that usual solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble. That answer one must live in the needs of one that - that is, forget oneself." ~ page 6

"But Levin was in love, and so it seemed to him that Kitty was so perfect in every respect that she was a creature far above everything earthly; and that he was a creature so low and so earthly that it could not even be conceived that other people and she herself could regard him as worthy of her." ~ Page 28

"She felt for him with her whole heart, the more because she was pitying him for suffering from the pain she had caused." ~ Page 64

"Anna had the faculty of blushing." ~ Page 85

"I assure you that I sleep anywhere, and always like a dormouse." ~ page 87

"Yes, there is something uncanny, demonic and fascinating in her." ~ Page 97

"No, you're not going to get away from us, and you're not going to be different, you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, ever lasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to improve, and failures, and continual expectations of happiness that has eluded you and that isn't possible for you." ~ page 108

"He felt that in the depth of his soul something had been put in its place, settled down, and laid to rest." ~ page 110

"Anna began to read and to understand what she read." ~ page 115

"Anna smiled as people smile at the weakness of those they love." ~ Page 128

"He considered it his duty to keep up with everything of note that appeared in the intellectual world. She knew, too, that he was really interested in books dealing with politics, philosophy and theology, that art was utterly foreign to his nature; but in spite of this, or rather, in consequence of it, Aleksey Aleksandrovich never missed anything in the world of art, but made it his duty to read everything." ~ Page 128

"As though tears were the indispensable oil without which the machinery of mutual confidence could not run smoothly between the two sister, the sisters after their tears talked, not of what was uppermost in their minds, but though they talked of outside matters, they understood each other." ~ Page 143

"Now he experienced a feeling akin to that of a man whom while calmly crossing a bridge over a precipice, should suddenly discover that the bridge is broken, and that there is a chasm below. That chasm was life itself, the bridge that artificial life in which Aleksey Aleksandrovich had lived." ~ Page 163

"For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault." Page 229