Anna Karenina I was eighteen when I got married, but it was not love.
Most-quoted character in Anna Karenina (2012): in 12 of its 22 quotes
Most scenes with: Vronsky (4)
All I know is that I sent him away, and it's as if I'd shot myself through the heart.
More lines from Anna Karenina
4 quotes Anna Karenina Anna Karenina I am not ashamed of who I am or what I've done. Are you ashamed for me?
Anna Karenina [when she and Count Vronsky having sex]
Oh, God! Oh, forgive me! It's the end of everything. I've got nothing left except you, remember that.
Anna Karenina [last lines]
Oh, God, forgive me!
Scenes with Anna Karenina
7 scenes Anna It's the first time I've left my little boy.
So you are leaving your son and I am returning to mine. I am Countess Vronsky. I've been in St. Petersburg for the christening of a granddaughter — my elder son married Princess Chirkov. You're a charming creature. Why don't I know you?
Anna I've never been in Moscow society, really.
But you know my name?
Anna I've heard you mentioned.
Talked about, you mean. Ah, love!
Anna Was it love?
Always. My sons are ashamed of me. But I'd rather end up wishing I hadn't than end up wishing I had — wouldn't you?
Dolly Kitty's coming by to see you. She's all grown-up, and a bit frightened of you — the belle of St. Petersburg society!
Anna Is that who I am? Dolly... Stiva has told me. [Dolly bursts into tears. Anna embraces her.] Dolly, I'm so sorry from the bottom of my heart.
Dolly I don't know what to do.
Anna I know, I know.
Dolly I can't bear to be with him. And he doesn't care, he's got what he wants.
Anna What he wants is you. He loves you, Dolly. You and the children are everything to him.
Dolly Are we? And there is room for a governess?
Anna That was shameful, disgraceful. But it was not love. It was the animal in man, not the soul. Stiva's remorse is from the soul.
Dolly What about me? Does his remorse make it easier for me?
Anna I know you are suffering. But, Dolly, you must tell me... is there enough love left in your heart... enough to forgive him?
Dolly When I think of them together, I can't forgive him, no!
Anna My poor lamb. So you'd rather accept your fate...
Dolly My fate? But I haven't done anything! It’s him who's—
Anna Do you love him, Dolly? [Dolly nods tearfully.] You love him, and he loves you, but you can't forgive, so your lives must continue like this forever, with both of you wretched.
Dance with me.
Anna I am not used to being spoken to like that by a man I met once at a railway station.
I dare say, but if I'm not to dance with you, I'm getting out of this operetta and going home.
Anna Then, for Kitty’s sake.
Can I be of service to you?
Anna Why are you leaving Moscow?
What else can I do? I have to be where you are.
Anna Stop that's enough. Go back to Kitty.
No
Anna This is wrong
It makes no difference
Anna You have no right
It makes no difference
Anna You must forget me, if you are a good man you'll forget everything
And you, will you forget?
Anna Yes
Were you glad to see me or not?
Anna This must stop. You make me feel as if I were guilty of something.
What do you want me to do?
Anna I want you to go to Moscow and beg Kitty to forgive you.
No, that's not what you want. Moscow? I can do better than that. Tonight I refused a posting to Tashkent. I can change my mind, and you'll never see me again.
Anna If you have any thought for me, you will give me back my peace.
I have no peace to give. There can be no peace for us— only misery or the greatest happiness.
I stayed up to talk to you.
Anna What about? It's late. Where's Annushka?
I sent her off.
Anna Well, if you want to talk, but we should go to bed.
I must warn you of something.
Anna Warn me? Oh, it's really rather late.
I wish to warn you that you may inadvertently, by indiscretion and carelessness, give the world occasion to talk about you.
Anna I'm not a committee. Please say what you want to tell me.
You and Count Vronsky attracted attention tonight.
Anna Oh, you don't like it when I don't talk to people, and you don't like it when I do.
I didn't notice anything, myself. But I saw that everyone else noticed. I consider jealousy to be insulting to you and degrading to me. I have no right to inquire into your feelings. They concern only your conscience. But it's my duty to remind you that we are bound together by God, and this bond can only be broken by a crime against God.
Anna I have nothing to say to you.
And you have a son.
Anna And I'm tired.
If I am wrong, I ask your pardon.
Anna I don't know what you're talking about, and it's really too late for this. Excuse me, please.
Anna I want you to. I don't care about it.
You should care. Anyway, someone might be watching.
Anna But I'm damned anyway.
I'm not. I’m blessed.
Anna [Anna pushes him onto his back and straddles him.]
You love me.
Yes.
Anna Only me.
No.
Anna Apart from Frou-Frou.
Yes.
Anna But me more than your horse?
Yes.
Anna Are you happy?
Yes.
Anna And you love me?
Yes.
Anna How much?
This much.
Anna This much?
Yes.
Anna This much?
Yes.
Anna This much?
Yes.
Anna This much? And this much? And this much?
Yes.
Anna And... this... much ...? So this is love. This.
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