“They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.”

“They haven’t an idea what happiness is; they don’t know that without our love, for us there is neither happiness nor unhappiness—no life at all”

“Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.”

“Don’t you know that you are all my life to me? ...But peace I do not know, and can’t give to you. My whole being, my love...yes! I cannot think about you and about myself separately. You and I are one to me. And I do not see before us the possibility of peace either for me or for you. I see the possibility of despair, misfortune...or of happiness-what happiness!...Is it impossible?"Vronksy”