But what always struck him in her as something unlooked for, was the expression of her eyes, soft, serene, and truthful, and above all, her smile
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
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“Vous filez le parfait amour. Tant mieux, mon cher, tant mieux.”
(You have the perfect love. So much the better, my dear, so much the better.)
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
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“I remember, and I know that blue haze like the mist on the mountains in Switzerland. That mist which covers everything in that blissful time when childhood is just ending, and out of that vast circle, happy and gay, there is a path growing narrower and narrower, and it is delightful and alarming to enter the ballroom, bright and splendid as it is. … Who has not been through it?”
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
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“The suppressed eagerness which played over her face, and flitted between the brilliant eyes and the faint smile that curved her red lips. It was as though her nature were so brimming over with something that against her will it showed itself now in the flash of her eyes, and now in her smile. Deliberately she shrouded the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in the faintly perceptible smile.”
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
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"Here we are, strangers in everything: different tastes, views, everything; but I know that you love me and understand me, and for that I love you terribly."
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
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“When now her glance met his blue kindly eyes looking intently at her, it seemed to her that he saw right through her, and understood all that was not good that was passing within her. ”
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
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“But there was another class of people, the real people. To this class they all belonged, and in it the great thing was to be elegant, generous, plucky, gay, to abandon oneself without a blush to every passion, and to laugh at everything else.”
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
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“Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.
Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?”
Romantic quote from classic author Ernest Hemingway.
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You take that ember of independence and you keep it burning. Because you, my darling, are destined to be on fire.
Inspirational quote from Moira Rose to Alexis Rose.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald — That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
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