"And where love ends, hate begins"
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Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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Quotes by 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."
"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."
"If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace."
"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."
"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."
"And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful."
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
"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."
"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."
"To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools."
"Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child."
"Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed."
"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."
"Love those you hate you."
"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."
"Love those you hate you."
"And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful."
"Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!"
"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."