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1  She had too great a desire to live herself.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 29
2  Her only desire now was to be rid of his oppressive presence.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 20
3  Well, see, Kitty, your intense desire to make friends with Mademoiselle.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 31
4  Without conscious intention he began to clutch at every passing caprice, taking it for a desire and an object.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 8
5  Besides, at the bottom of his heart he had a desire to try himself, put himself to the test in regard to this girl.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 26
6  Only rarely he suffered from an unsatisfied desire to communicate his stray ideas to someone besides Agafea Mihalovna.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 12
7  "But one thing is possible, one thing she might desire," he went on, "that is the cessation of your relations and all memories associated with them."
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 22
8  There was a struggle in his heart between the desire to forget his unhappy brother for the time, and the consciousness that it would be base to do so.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
9  Levin certainly was out of humor, and in spite of all his desire to be affectionate and cordial to his charming visitor, he could not control his mood.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 17
10  But that feeling had been replaced by another, the desire, not merely that she should not be triumphant, but that she should get due punishment for her crime.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 13
11  The desire for life, waxing stronger with recovered health, was so intense, and the conditions of life were so new and pleasant, that Anna felt unpardonably happy.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 8
12  But from the look in her face, that suddenly brightened into its old beauty, he saw that if she did not desire this, it was simply because it seemed to her unattainable happiness.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 21
13  There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 14
14  If you love your child as a good father, you will not desire only wealth, luxury, honor for your infant; you will be anxious for his salvation, his spiritual enlightenment with the light of truth.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 1
15  She was fond of Kitty, and her affection for her showed itself, as the affection of married women for girls always does, in the desire to make a match for Kitty after her own ideal of married happiness; she wanted her to marry Vronsky.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 14
16  The hero of the novel was already almost reaching his English happiness, a baronetcy and an estate, and Anna was feeling a desire to go with him to the estate, when she suddenly felt that he ought to feel ashamed, and that she was ashamed of the same thing.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 29
17  That which for Vronsky had been almost a whole year the one absorbing desire of his life, replacing all his old desires; that which for Anna had been an impossible, terrible, and even for that reason more entrancing dream of bliss, that desire had been fulfilled.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 11
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