Anna

“I won't say life wouldn't be worth living without it, but it would be dull”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“The manner of life you have chosen is reflected, I suppose, in your ideas”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“It's only those people that have an intuitive sense of what's of importance and significance in their institutions, and know how to value them, that have a future before them ― it's only those peoples that one can truly call historical.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“I'm feeling miserable" . . .
There was no self-pity in his tone, no appeal for sympathy ― only the angry matter-of-factness of a Stoic who has finally grown sick of the long farce of impassibility and is resentfully blurting out the truth.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island