Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, is argued by some as being the greatest novel ever, while at over 800 pages long, any quotes from the book will only give a taste of the story.
However, even this list of the smaller quotes from, the novel will only give you a just a hint of the profoundness of this novel.
by Leo Tolstoy
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a sweeping and deeply human novel that explores love, betrayal, duty, and the search for meaning. At its heart is Anna, a striking and intelligent woman trapped by the rigid expectations of 19th-century Russian aristocracy. Her passionate affair with Count Vronsky leads her down a path of personal liberation—but also societal condemnation, emotional instability, and, ultimately, tragedy.
In contrast, the parallel story of Konstantin Levin offers a quieter but equally powerful journey. Struggling with questions of purpose, faith, and happiness, Levin’s story grounds the novel in a search for spiritual and moral clarity. His relationship with the kind and grounded Kitty stands in stark contrast to Anna’s tumultuous romance, offering a meditation on love as endurance rather than obsession.
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Book Quote, posts normally taken from just one book, this time it is divided into two sections. The first is quotes from his books as normal. Besides this their will be quotes from outside his literary works.
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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way
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“Stepan Arkadyevitch … liked his newspaper, as he did his cigar after dinner, for the slight fog it diffused in his brain.
Part 1, Chapter 3
As for this little Petersburg swell, they’re turned out by machinery, all on one pattern, and all precious rubbish.
Part 1, Chapter 15
“You are one of those delightful women in whose company it’s sweet to be silent as well as to talk.”
Part 1, Chapter 18
“I’d so love to know her whole romance,” thought Kitty, recalling the unpoetical appearance of Alexei Alexandrovich, her husband
Part 1, Chapter 20
He had said what her soul longed to hear, though she feared it with her reason
Part 1, Chapter 30
He felt that all his forces, hitherto dissipated, wasted, were centered on one thing, and bent with fearful energy on one blissful goal.
Part 1, Chapter 31
“You set off with the mother and you return with the son,” he said, articulating each syllable, as though each were a separate favor he was bestowing.
Part 1, Chapter 31
“I’m beginning to be weary of fruitlessly championing the truth.”
Part 1, Chapter 32
“What is a Pietist, papa?” asked Kitty, dismayed to find that what she prized so highly in Madame Stahl had a name
Part 2, Chapter 34
Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw
Part 3, Chapter 2
You are altogether, as the French say, too primesautière a nature; you must have intense, energetic action, or nothing.
Part 3, Chapter 6
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The landowner, like all men who think independently and in isolation, was slow in taking in any other person’s idea, and particularly partial to his own.
Part 3, Chapter 27
He only remembered his face as he remembered all the faces he had ever seen; but he remembered, too, that it was one of the faces laid by in his memory in the immense class of the falsely consequential and poor in expression.
Part 5, Chapter 11
There had come back into his face the stern, reproachful expression of the dying man’s envy of the living
Part 5, Chapter 11
Countess Lidia Ivanovna looked at him ecstatically, and tears of rapture at the greatness of his soul came into her eyes.
Part 5, Chapter 24
Levin and Kitty were particularly happy and conscious of their love that evening. And their happiness in their love seemed to imply a disagreeable slur on those who would have liked to feel the same and could not—and they felt a prick of conscience.
Part 6, Chapter 6
he’s one of those people who are very pleasant if one accepts them for what they try to appear to be.”
Part 6, Chapter 19
We live without making anything, as though we were ancient vestals set to keep in a fire
Part 6, Chapter 29
Only by occupation in the day, by morphine at night, could she stifle the fearful thought of what would be if he ceased to love her.
Part 6, Chapter 32
Real life had only for a time overcast the spiritual peace he had found, but it was still untouched within him.
Part 8, Chapter 14
Levin reddened with vexation, not at being defeated, but at having failed to control himself and being drawn into argument.
Part 8, Chapter 16
“No, I can’t argue with them,” he thought; “they wear impenetrable armor, while I’m naked.”
Part 8, Chapter 16
-but my life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it!
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