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  1. Leo Tolstoy _ Anna Karenina

    Toda la diversidad, la hermosura, el encanto de la vida, se componen de luces y sombras.
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  2. Leo Tolstoy _ Anna Karenina

    You have a consistent character yourself and you wish all the facts of life to be consistent, but they never are. For instance you despise public service because you want work always to correspond to its aims, and that never happens. You also want the activity of each separate man to have an aim, and love and family life always to coincide––and that doesn't happen either. All the variety, charm and beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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  3. Leo Tolstoy _ Anna Karenina

    Oh! How good it is to be your age! I remember, and I know that blue haze like the mist on the mountains of Switzerland. That mist which covers everything in that blissful time when childhood is just ending, and out of the vast circle, happy and gay, there is a path growing narrower and narrower, and it is delightful and alarming to enter the ballroom, bright and splendid as it is...
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  4. Leo Tolstoy _ Anna Karenina

    Kitty looked into his face, which was so close to her own, and long afterwards-for several years after-that look, full of love, to which he made no response, cut her to the heart with an agony of shame.
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  5. Leo Tolstoy _ Anna Karenina

    There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.
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  6. Leo Tolstoy _ Anna Karenina

    I've enough pride never to let myself love a man who does not love me.
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  7. Leo Tolstoy _ Anna Karenina

    I and all men have only one firm, incontestable, clear knowledge, and that knowledge cannot be explained by the reason--it is outside it, and has no causes and can have no effects. "If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.
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  8. Leo Tolstoy _ Anna Karenina

    Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One must do nothing in excess
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  9. Leo Tolstoy _ Anna Karenina

    It was one of those things that one knows but cannot even tell oneself - so dreadful and shameful it would be to be mistaken.
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  10. Leo Tolstoy _ Anna Karenina

    No, you're not going to get away from us, and you're not going to be different, you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, ever lasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to improve, and failures, and continual expectations of happiness that has eluded you and that isn't possible for you.
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  11. Leo Tolstoy _ Anna Karenina

    I've lost my heart to you.
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  12. Leo Tolstoy _ Anna Karenina

    ... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.
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