Expression Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“That which for Vronsky had been almost a whole year the one absorbing desire of his life, replacing all his old desires; that which…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Now that Vronsky had deceived her, she was prepared to love Levin and to hate Vronsky.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“He [Vronsky] himself felt that, except that crazy fellow married to Kitty Shcherbatsky, who, quite irrelevantly had with rabid virulence told him a lot…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He looked at people as if they were things. A nervous young man across from him...came to hate him for that look. The young…

— Leo Tolstoy

“As he looked round, she too turned her head .Her shining gray eyes, that looked dark from the thick lashes, rested with friendly attention…

— Leo Tolstoy

“In that brief glance Vronsky has time to notice the restrained animation that played over her face and fluttered between her shining eyes and…

— Leo Tolstoy

“On one memorable occasion Vronsky played all the parts in an abridged version of Anna Karenina when the rest of the cast were on…

— Jasper Fforde

“Adults were always quick to tell her how much she looked like her mother, and how little like her father. Though Anna thought that…

— Antonia Michaelis

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“In fact, there was a sort of satisfaction and pride in knowing that Kiki was his. Other men could look, they could envy, they…

— Genevieve Dewey

“I could tell from Anna's face that she had already told him about dancing in Saint Petersburg and that the memory weighed on her…

— Colum McCann

“Before I knew what was happening he was pulled away from me and I wondered for a second where Anna had got such strength…

— Melina Marchetta