More quotes by Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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