“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it, have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be broken.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
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