"Life is a taking off of covers."
— Lev Tolstoy
"But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable."
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Lev Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
"There are people who when they meet a rival, no matter in what, at once shut their eyes to everything good in him and see only the bad. There are others who on the contrary try to discern in a lucky rival the qualities which have enabled him to succeed, and with aching hearts seek only the good in him."
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Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
"For him the problem was this: ‘If I do not accept the answers Christianity gives to the questions of my life, what answers do I accept?’ And in the whole arsenal of his convictions he failed to find not only any kind of answer but anything resembling an answer."
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Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina