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He tried to recall his best moments with her but they were for ever poisoned. He could think of her only as triumphant, having carried out the threat of inflicting on him totally useless but irrevocable remorse.

The candle, by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, grief, and evil, flared up with a brighter light, lit up for her all that had before been dark, crackled, began to flicker, and went out forever.

The way Tolstoy masterfully describes the human condition and internal turmoil is absolutely incredible.

A son is born. What a scene.

Two worlds collide.

P. 661 the way Kitty checks out Levin to see what impression does the person she loved leave to an observer in the crowd - masterfully crafted.

Anna finally reached her wits end and wrote to ask for a divorce. Onto part VII.

Understand that I love equally, I think, and both more than myself - two beings: Serezha and Alexis. I love those two beings only, and the one excludes the other! I cannot unite them, yet that is the one thing I desire. And if I can't have that, nothing matters - nothing, nothing!
Don't despise me! I don't deserve contempt. I am simply unhappy. If anyone is unhappy, it is I!

Levin's raging jealousy and bruised ego drives him to cast Vasenka away.

Ah, am I sensing the first trouble in paradise already...

First public blow-out.

Oh how painful... the bond between a mother and her firstborn can never be broken. But it can never be repaired either. Such are the people, such are the times. Oh how much regret and destruction.