#anna karenina

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

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You speak of energy. Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there’s no forcing it.

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To have those feelings awakened was painful, but she still knew that they were the best part of her soul, and that part of

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And what was the use of counting by years, when he felt as young at heart as he had been twenty years ago?

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It was not even a conversation but a kind of mystic intercourse, which every moment bound them closer and closer and created

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There were no other eyes in the world like them.

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He had said just what her soul desired but her reason dreaded.

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“What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina...