The superfluity of the comforts of like destroys all joy in satisfying one's needs, while great freedom in the choice of occupation...is just what makes the choice of occupation insoluble difficult an...
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.
But that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.
There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.
There are no conditions to which a man may not become accustomed, particularly if he sees that they are accepted by those about him.
Levin had often noticed in discussions between the most intelligent people that after enormous efforts, and an enormous expenditure of logical subtleties and words, the disputants finally arrived at b...
Levin had been married three months. He was happy, but not at all in the way he had expected to be. At every step he found his former dreams disappointed, and new, unexpected surprises of happiness. H...
Levin evleneli üç ay oluyordu. Mutluydu. Ama onun beklediği mutluluk değildi bu. Adımbaşı, eski hayallerinin kırıldığını hissediyor; yeni beklenmedik hayal kırıklıklarıyla karşılaşıyordu. Mutluydu, am...
In the city the wretched feel less sad. One can live there a hundred years without being noticed, and be dead a long time before anybody will notice it.
In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.
I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Maste...
I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.
How good it would be to know where to look for help in this life and what to expect after it, there, beyond the grave! How happy and calm I'd be, if I could say now: Lord, have mercy on me! ... But to...
Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be...
He knew that Vronsky could not be prevented from amusing himself with painting; he knew that he and all dilettanti had a perfect right to paint what they liked, but it was distasteful to him. A man co...
He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in the world in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree
He had heard that women often did care for ugly and ordinary men, but he did not believe it, for he judged by himself, and he could not himself have loved any but beautiful, mysterious, and exceptiona...
Formerly (it had begun almost from childhood and kept growing till full maturity), whenever he had tried to do something that would be good for everyone, for mankind, for Russia, for the district, for...
For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.