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Quotes from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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1 He longed for food and for sleep.
2 An invalid lady had already lain down to sleep.
3 Vronsky had not even tried to sleep all that night.
4 Though it was dusk, not one of them wanted to go to sleep.
5 But after she had gone to bed, for a long while she could not sleep.
6 He had not slept the previous night, but was incapable of thinking of sleep either.
7 The sick man fell into a quiet sleep, but he was waked up half an hour later by his cough.
8 He did not sleep half the night, thinking over in detail the putting of his idea into practice.
9 Levin felt, withdrew behind the screen, and put out the candle, but for a long while he could not sleep.
10 They could neither of them eat, however, and for a long while they could not sleep, and did not even go to bed.
11 Levin stealthily withdrew his hand, and without looking at the dying man, went off to his own room and went to sleep.
12 As the house was damp, and only one bedroom had been kept heated, Levin put his brother to sleep in his own bedroom behind a screen.
13 Levin felt that it was unpardonable to eat, to sleep, to talk even now, and it seemed to him that every movement he made was unseemly.
14 He did not sleep the whole night, and his fury, growing in a sort of vast, arithmetical progression, reached its highest limits in the morning.
15 His brother got into bed, and whether he slept or did not sleep, tossed about like a sick man, coughed, and when he could not get his throat clear, mumbled something.
16 To forget himself in sleep was impossible now, at least till nighttime; he could not go back now to the music sung by the decanter-women; so he must forget himself in the dream of daily life.
17 "Oh, we all know you can do without sleep, and keep other people up too," Dolly said to her husband, with that faint note of irony in her voice which she almost always had now with her husband.
18 The horse, stiffening out its legs, with an effort stopped its rapid course, and the officer of the horse-guards looked round him like a man waking up from a heavy sleep, and just managed to smile.
19 He still lay down, trying to sleep, though he felt there was not the smallest hope of it, and kept repeating stray words from some chain of thought, trying by this to check the rising flood of fresh images.
20 He turned over his stout, well-cared-for person on the springy sofa, as though he would sink into a long sleep again; he vigorously embraced the pillow on the other side and buried his face in it; but all at once he jumped up, sat up on the sofa, and opened his eyes.
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