I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental organization under which power may fall, and does fall, into the, hands of the worst men.

People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.