Some lines from the novel, which I liked most and felt like sharing. (At last, fulfilling the promise I made a year back)
Happy families are all alike. Unhappy families are unhappy in its own ways!
The universal solution that life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable – One must live in the needs of the day – that is, forget oneself.
The aim of civilization – to make everything a source of enjoyment.
Women, they are the pivot that everything turns upon.
There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival those qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.
Marriage – for some, it’s one of the numerous facts of social life; whereas for some it’s whole affairs of life.
In his feeling for her now, there was no element of mystery, and so her beauty, though it attracted him even more intensely than before, gave him a sense of injury.
Any action, in the judgment of some people, will be monstrous, while in the judgment of others will be the simplest and most just thing to do.
Parents are now not expected to live at all, but to exist altogether for their children. (Whether this statement holds good these days ??? I doubt it...)
Extremes are not good in anything.
More to come....
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