Happiness
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Happiness
consists only in loving and desiring: in wishing her wishes and in thinking her thoughts, which means having no freedom whatever; that is happiness!''But do I know her thoughts, wishes, or feelings?' a voice suddenly whispered.
Levin glanced at Kitty and thought he had never seen her like that before, so enchanting with the new light of
happiness
irradiating her face.
The memory of her husband's grief did not poison her
happiness.
I have done wrong, and therefore do not ask for
happiness
and do not want a divorce.
That realization showed him the eternal error men make by imagining that
happiness
consists in the gratification of their wishes.
Kitty's absorption in these trifles, quite contrary to Levin's early ideal of lofty happiness, was one of his disappointments; yet that sweet absorption, the meaning of which he could not understand but which he could not help liking, was also one of his new enchantments.
He rode home thinking only of her, of her love and of his happiness, and the nearer he came the warmer grew his tenderness for her.
Having realized that she was in the wrong, though she did not acknowledge it, she became more tender to him, and they enjoyed a new and doubled
happiness
in their love.
However, when both were in good spirits their
happiness
was doubled – and yet the early days of their married life were very trying.
He had not abandoned his work on the estate, or on the book in which the foundations of a new farming system were to be explained; but as those thoughts and that work formerly appeared to him trivial and insignificant in comparison with the gloom that overshadowed all existence, so now they appeared trivial and insignificant in comparison with his future prospects all bathed in the bright sunshine of
happiness.
For me, I mean...' he said, coming toward her with a beaming smile of
happiness.
About Moscow, and about the nape of your neck.''Why should such
happiness
come just to me?
He was dissatisfied with her because she could not face letting him go when it was necessary (and how strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the
happiness
of her loving him, now felt unhappy because she loved him too much!), and dissatisfied with himself because he had not maintained his authority.
Levin at once felt the reproach in the look fixed on him, and a sense of repentance because of his own
happiness.
Please let me!' she entreated as if her
happiness
depended on it.
It was clear the change was taking place within him which would bring him to regard death as a fulfilment of his desires, as
happiness.
This joy appeared to him particularly important because it coincided with the satisfaction of the official, and his own
happiness
that a present had been brought.
But she knew that this insincerity was the outcome of his affection for his brother, of a sense of shame at his own excessive happiness, and especially of that desire to improve which never left him; she loved this in him, and therefore smiled.
Their
happiness
in their love involved an unpleasant reflection on those who desired, but had failed, to secure the same happiness, and made them feel ashamed.
But our happiness, mine and yours... why... ?''Do you know, I see how it happened...'Kitty began.
The birth of a son (he was certain it would be a son) which they promised him, but in which he still could not believe, so extraordinary did it seem, appeared to him on the one hand such an immense and therefore impossible happiness, and on the other such a mysterious event, that this pretended knowledge of what was going to happen and consequent preparations as for something ordinary, something produced by human beings, seemed to him an indignity and a degradation.
Again, as on the previous occasion, he suddenly, without the least interval, felt thrown from the height of happiness, peace, and dignity into an abyss of despair, malevolence, and degradation.
I am working here, remaining on the spot, and I am happy and contented, and we need nothing more for our
happiness.
The
happiness
and existence of Anna and her children depend on it.]
How stupid that old ceremony is, walking round and round singing, "Rejoice, Isaiah!" – a ceremony in which nobody believes and which stands in the way of people's happiness!' interpolated Oblonsky.
With that expression her face seemed even more beautiful than before; but it was a novel look; it was outside the circle of expressions, radiating
happiness
and creating happiness, which the artist had caught when painting her portrait.
'Oh, if you only knew the
happiness
we experience, feeling His continual presence in our souls!' cried the Countess Lydia Ivanovna with a beatific smile.
That is the
happiness
faith gives!''Oh yes, it is very...' began Oblonsky, glad that she was going to read and give him time to get his ideas together.
'A woman whose heart has not divined wherein her son's
happiness
and honour lies has no heart!''I repeat my request that you should not speak disrespectfully of my mother, whom I respect!' said he, raising his voice and looking sternly at her.
Is any kind – not of
happiness
even, but of absence of torture – possible?
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