Three Key Quotes

In Moscow, for the first time, after the course and lux­u­ri­ous life of Peters­burg, [Vron­sky] expe­ri­enced the delight of friend­ship with a sweet, inno­cent soci­ety girl who was in love with him. It never even entered his head that there might be any­thing wrong about his rela­tions with Kitty. At balls he danced chiefly …

As always hap­pens wher­ever peo­ple gather together, so at the lit­tle Ger­man spa the Shcherbatskys went to there took place the usual crys­tal­liza­tion as it were of soci­ety that assigns each one of its mem­bers a def­i­nite and unal­ter­able niche. As def­i­nitely and unal­ter­ably as a drop of …

At each sec­tion of [Karenin’s] walk, for the most part on the par­quet of the lighted-up din­ing room, he would stop it, and express him­self: Yes, I must make a deci­sion and stop it, and express my opin­ion of it and my deci­sion. Then he would turn back again. …

Kitty danced in the first pair; luck­ily for her she did not have to speak, since Kor­sun­sky kept run­ning back and forth man­ag­ing his domain. Vron­sky and Anna were sit­ting almost oppo­site her. She saw them with her far­sighted eyes and she saw them close by as well, …

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In Moscow, for the first time, after the course and lux­u­ri­ous life of Peters­burg, [Vron­sky] expe­ri­enced the delight of friend­ship with a sweet, inno­cent soci­ety girl who was in love with him. It never even entered his head that there might be any­thing wrong about his rela­tions with Kitty. …