He had heard that women often loved plain, simple men, but he didn't believe it, since he judged by himself and he himself could only love beautiful, mysterious, and exceptional women.
-- Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
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Birini seversen eğer, olmasını istediğin gibi değil olduğu gibi, her şeyiyle seversin.
Lev Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
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"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow"
Let's do this, 2024 🥂
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She was as easy to find in that crowd as a rose among nettles. Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light on all around her.
Leo Tolstoy, from Anna Karenina
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Between Levin and Countess Nordston a relationship had grown up that is seen quite frequently in society, when two people outwardly remaining on friendly terms despise one another to such a point that they cannot treat the other seriously and cannot even be offended by each other.
--- Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy.
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İnsanlardan kurtulmanın tek yolunun, yaralarını onlardan gizlemek olduğunu biliyordu.
Anna Karenina ~ Lev Tolstoy
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Anna Karenina the book, oil on canvas
The canvas is not thick enough, obviously, but other than that I'm pretty satisfied with the end result.
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All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
‘I have nothing to forget or forgive, I never ceased to love you.'
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“I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Painting: Embrace II from the series “Surfacing” by Ron Hicks
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