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“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
““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.”
“I can't stay very long with you. I'm forced to go on to old Madame Vrede. I've been promising to go for a century,” said Anna, to whom lying, alien as it was to her nature, had become not merely simple and natural in society, but a positive source of satisfaction.”
“There had come back into his face the stern, reproachful expression of the dying man's envy of the living.”
“It was positively disagreeable to her to think that Anna was coming to see her immediately. She longed to be alone with her own thoughts.”
“All the theories of the significance of the Slav element in the history of the world seemed to him so trivial compared with what was passing in his own soul, that he instantly forgot it all and dropped back into the same frame of mind that he had been in that morning.”
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Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever written, Tolstoy himself called it his first true novel. It was initially released in serial installments from 1875 to 1877, all but the last part appearing in the periodical The Russian Messenger.
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