Leo Tolstoy- Anna Karenina

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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in it's own way.

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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her like the sun, even without looking.

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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me far more than you can understand.

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Impure love is not love to me. To admire another man's wife is a pleasant thing, but sensual desire indulged for its own sake is greed ; a kind of gluttony and a misuse of something sacred that's given to us so that we may choose that one person with which to fulfill our humanness. Otherwise,  we might as well be cattle.

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All the variety,
All the charm,
All the beauty of life
Is made up of light and shadow.

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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love shoud be.

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But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

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I think, if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads,  then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

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It was as if a surplus of something so overflowed her being that it expressed itself beyond her will, now in the brightness of her glance, now in her smile.

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It's such better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired; whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

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If you look foe perfection,  you'll never be content.

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Whatever our fate is or maybe, we have made it and do not complain of it.

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And where love ends,  hate begins.

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"If you love me as you say you do", she whispered, "make it so that I am at peace".

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I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.

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