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“Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason! Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
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