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Love them that hate you, but you can't love them whom you hate.

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Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly rema...more

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Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills...more

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Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!

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They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

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I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kep...more

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At the point where he, today's Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so real melted away now before his eyes and turned into...more

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In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.