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“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
“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.”
― The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.”
― The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
“she smiled at him, and at her own fears.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget...”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
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