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Persuasion

by Jane Austen

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Dec 30, 2020 03:10PM

“The news of Kitty's friendship with Mme Stahl and Varenka, and the observations conveyed to him by the princess about some change that had taken place in Kitty, troubled the prince and provoked in him the usual feeling of jealousy towards everything that interested his daughter to the exclusion of himself, and a fear lest his daughter escape from his influence into some spheres inaccessible to him.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“The longer Levin mowed, the more often he felt those moments of oblivion during which it was no longer his arms that swung the scythe, but the scythe itself that lent motion to his whole body, full of life and conscious of itself, and, as if by magic, without a thought of it, the work got rightly and neatly done on its own. These were the most blissful moments.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“He (Levin) was not the least bit interested in what he said himself, still less in what they said, and desired only one thing - that they and everyone should be nice and agreeable.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“She (Kitty) and Levin were carrying on their own conversation, or not a conversation but some mysterious communication that bound them more closely together with every minute and produced in both of them a feeling of joyful fear before the unknown into which they were entering.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“Liza is one of those naïve natures, like children, who don't understand what's good and what's bad. At least she didn't understand it when she was very young. And now she knows that this non-understanding becomes her. Now she may purposely not understand...but all the same it becomes her. You see, one and the same thing can be looked at tragically and be made into a torment, or can be looked at simply and even gaily. Perhaps you're inclined to look at things too tragically.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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