Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)

“Brother, let me ask you one more thing: can it be that any man has the right to decide about the rest of mankind, who is worthy to live and who is more unworthy?”

Eh bien, quelle conversation ont-ils dû avoir dans le traktir ? Ils ont parlé d’idées générales : si Dieu existe, si l’àme est immortelle, et (ceux qui ne croient pas en Dieu; de socialisme, d’anarchie , du renouvellement de l’ordre établi ; ce qui est la même question, vue autrement.

• Prince Andrei Bolkonsky: There must be something you want to do.


• Pierre Bezukhov: I want to discover... everything! I want to discover why I know what's right and still do what's wrong. I want to discover what happiness is, and what value there is in suffering. I want to discover why men go to war, and what they really say deep in their hearts when

'You can only improve life in yourself by destroying the barriers that divide your life from that of others, and by considering others as yourself, and loving them. By so doing you increase your share of life. You injure your life when you think of it as the only life, and try to add to its welfare at the expense of other lives. By so doing you onl