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Quotes from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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1 "Not Petersburg, but simply feminine," she responded.
2 Talking about common acquaintances in Petersburg, Anna got up quickly.
3 Half Moscow and Petersburg were friends and relations of Stepan Arkadyevitch.
4 In his Petersburg world all people were divided into utterly opposed classes.
5 As he always did in Petersburg, he left home not meaning to return till late at night.
6 Although he did go more or less into Petersburg society, his love affairs had always hitherto been outside it.
7 When he got out of the train at Petersburg, he felt after his sleepless night as keen and fresh as after a cold bath.
8 Leaving the school very young as a brilliant officer, he had at once got into the circle of wealthy Petersburg army men.
9 The highest Petersburg society is essentially one: in it everyone knows everyone else, everyone even visits everyone else.
10 At Petersburg, as soon as the train stopped and she got out, the first person that attracted her attention was her husband.
11 Vronsky is one of the sons of Count Kirill Ivanovitch Vronsky, and one of the finest specimens of the gilded youth of Petersburg.
12 Towards morning Anna sank into a doze, sitting in her place, and when she waked it was daylight and the train was near Petersburg.
13 When Vronsky went to Moscow from Petersburg, he had left his large set of rooms in Morskaia to his friend and favorite comrade Petritsky.
14 While he was washing, Petritsky described to him in brief outlines his position, as far as it had changed since Vronsky had left Petersburg.
15 A feeling such as his was profaned by talk of the rivalry of some Petersburg officer, of the suppositions and the counsels of Stepan Arkadyevitch.
16 Still she did not forget that Anna, her sister-in-law, was the wife of one of the most important personages in Petersburg, and was a Petersburg grande dame.
17 "No; why, as it is, I have danced more at your ball in Moscow than I have all the winter in Petersburg," said Anna, looking round at Vronsky, who stood near her.
18 In Moscow he had for the first time felt, after his luxurious and coarse life at Petersburg, all the charm of intimacy with a sweet and innocent girl of his own rank, who cared for him.
19 At dinner he talked a little to his wife about Moscow matters, and, with a sarcastic smile, asked her after Stepan Arkadyevitch; but the conversation was for the most part general, dealing with Petersburg official and public news.
20 Seeing Alexey Alexandrovitch with his Petersburg face and severely self-confident figure, in his round hat, with his rather prominent spine, he believed in him, and was aware of a disagreeable sensation, such as a man might feel tortured by thirst, who, on reaching a spring, should find a dog, a sheep, or a pig, who has drunk of it and muddied the water.
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