Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

"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."

"And where love ends, hate begins"

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

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

"They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life."

"Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time, in an infinity of matter, and an infinity of space a bubble-organism emerges while will exist for a little time and then burst, and that bubble am I."

"It's hard to love a woman and do anything."

"Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed."

"Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time, in an infinity of matter, and an infinity of space a bubble-organism emerges while will exist for a little time and then burst, and that bubble am I."

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

"We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that."

"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."

"They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life."

"And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful."

"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."

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

"To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools."

"Love those you hate you."

"And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful."

"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."