Anna-karenina Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“Stepan Arkadyevitch, who liked a joke, was fond of puzzling a plain man by saying that if he prided himself on his origin, he…

— Leo Tolstoy

“We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.”

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“Obierika was a man who thought about things.”

— Chinua Achebe

“His father in law, who was as old as the century, had just retired and was living in a country house in Gelderland. He…

— Harry Mulisch

“and do not speak to me, please, of African Eve or LUCA, the three-and-a-half-billion-year-old blob of goo that was our Last Universal Common Ancestor.…

— Salman Rushdie

“The fact that he got to save the Gwardian's mate and managed to piss him off at the same time, well that was just…

— Madison Thorne Grey

“Horace was a nice little guy who looked like one of his own baboons; he turned me over to a Doctor Vargas who was…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Probably we’d have been better off born in nineteenth-century Russia. I’d have been Prince So-and-so and you Count Such-and-such. We’d go hunting together, fight,…

— Haruki Murakami

“It was as if the boy had already divined what his senses and intellect had not encompassed yet: that doomed wilderness whose edges were…

— William Faulkner

“Now, look you here, Sekundar," says I, but he came up straight like a little bantam and cut me off. "Sir Alexander. if you…

— George MacDonald Fraser

“The uncounted days slid past while he argued with himself over the things that bothered him-problems that had made sad the soul of his…

— Robert Heinlein

“For you, at least, are young; ‘no hungry generations tread you down,’ and the past does not weary you with the intolerable burden of…

— Oscar Wilde