At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them; but when later on he saw that such actions were done by people of good position and that they did not regard them as wrong, he was able not exactly to regard them as right, but to forget about them entirely or not be at all troubled at remembering them.

Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.

For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.