- "— she comforted herself with the reflection that no one would ever know it, and she was not to blame if she loved in secret for the first and last time and for her whole life long."
- "ah, my dear boy, life has been a bitter thing for me of late. i see that i have come to understand too much."
- "i understood her,' thought prince andrey, 'and more than understood her: that spiritual force, that sincerity, that openness of soul, which seemed bound up with her body, the very soul it was i loved in her... loved so intensely, so passionately..."
- "there was something in this life that i didn't understand, and don't understand."
- "if it were not for suffering, a man would not know his limits, would not know himself."
- "he struggled against the consciousness of his own weakness, but he vaguely felt that he could not overcome it, that his past gloomy train of ideas, of vengeance, murder, and self-sacrifice, had been blown away like dust at contact with the first human being."
- "but all that is only the setting of life; the real thing is love."
- "you?' he said. 'what happiness!"
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