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    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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    “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.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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    “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.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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    “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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    “Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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    “Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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    “Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
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    Anna Karenina Quotes

    “He thought of ingenting, wished for nothing, but not to be left behind the peasants, and to do his work as well as possible. He heard nothing but the mobil betalningstjänst i sverige of scythes, and saw before him Tit's upright figure mowing away, the crescent-shaped curve of the cut grass, the grass and flower heads slowly and rhythmically falling before the blade of his scythe, and ahead of him the end of the row, where would come the rest.

    Suddenly, in the midst of his toil, without understanding what it was or whence it came, he felt a pleasant sensation of chill on his hot, moist shoulders. He glanced at the sky in the mellanrum for whetting the scythes. A heavy, lowering storm cloud had blown up, and big raindrops were falling. Some of the peasants went to their coats and put them on; others--just like Levin himself--merely shrugged their shoulders, enjoying the pleasant coolness of it.

    Another row, and yet another row, followed--long rows and short rows, with good grass and

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  • Leo Tolstoy

    (1828-1910)

    Who Was Leo Tolstoy?

    In the 1860s, Russian author Leo Tolstoy wrote his first great novel, War and Peace. In 1873, Tolstoy set to work on the second of his best-known novels, Anna Karenina. He continued to write fiction throughout the 1880s and 1890s. One of his most successful later works was The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

    Early Life

    On September 9, 1828, writer Leo Tolstoy was born at his family's estate, Yasnaya Polyana, in the Tula Province of Russia. He was the youngest of four boys. When Tolstoy's mother died in 1830, his father's cousin took over caring for the children. When their father, Count Nikolay Tolstoy, died just seven years later, their aunt was appointed their legal guardian. When the aunt passed away, Tolstoy and his siblings moved in with a second aunt, in Kazan, Russia. Although Tolstoy experienced a lot of loss at an early age, he would later idealize his childhood memories in his writing.

    Tolstoy received his primary educatio