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Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in t...more

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

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Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement.

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if they hadn’t both been pretending, but had had what is called a heart-to-heart talk, that is, simply told each other just what they were thinking an...more

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

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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

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I’ve never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter with the ringlets ...more

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But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.

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But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

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He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick an...more

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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

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Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the ...more

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The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was ...more

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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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Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actio...more