## Metadata - Author: [[Leo Tolstoy]] - Full Title: Anna Karenina - Category: #books ## Highlights - We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. - W. B. Yeats ([Location 184](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0023EFB1O&location=184)) - All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ([Location 472](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0023EFB1O&location=472)) - He had heard that women often love unattractive, simple people, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself, and he could only love beautiful, mysterious and special women. ([Location 988](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0023EFB1O&location=988)) - 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. ([Location 1108](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0023EFB1O&location=1108)) - ‘So you see,’ said Stepan Arkadyich, ‘you’re a very wholesome man. That is your virtue and your defect. You have a wholesome character, and you want all of life to be made up of wholesome phenomena, but that doesn’t happen. So you despise the activity of public service because you want things always to correspond to their aim, and that doesn’t happen. You also want the activity of the individual man always to have an aim, that love and family life always be one. And that doesn’t happen. All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.’ ([Location 1460](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0023EFB1O&location=1460)) - As if tears were the necessary lubricant without which the machine of mutual communication could not work successfully, the two sisters, after these tears, started talking, not about what preoccupied them, but about unrelated things, and yet they understood each other. ([Location 3373](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0023EFB1O&location=3373)) - ‘Either you’re so undeveloped that you cannot see all that you could do, or you cannot give up your peace, your vanity, whatever, in order to do it.’ ([Location 6136](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0023EFB1O&location=6136)) - These joys were so small that they could not be seen, like gold in the sand, and in her bad moments she saw only griefs, only sand; but there were also good moments, when she saw only joys, only gold. ([Location 6560](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0023EFB1O&location=6560))