Anna

“Every one of them was a failure, but none of them was defeated.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think & Grow Rich: The 21st Century Edition

“. . . he knew beforehand that everyone was against him, and that he would not be allowed to do what seemed to him now so natural and right, but would be forced to do what was wrong, though it seemed the proper thing to them.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Levin loved his brother, but being with him was always a torture.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And too sensitive, even if he were convinced, to carry it out. His muscles would like to act and his feelings would like to believe; but his nerve-endings and his cleverness won't allow it.”
"So I suppose he's very unhappy."
"So unhappy that he has to laugh like a hyena.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island