Anna Karenina - Part 8

"I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the

coachman, falling into angry discussions, expressing my opinions

tactlessly; there will be still the same wall between the holy of

holies of my soul and other people, even my wife; I shall still

go on scolding her for my own terror, and being remorseful for

it; I shall still be as unable to understand with my reason why

I pray, and I shall still go on praying; but my life now, my

whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every

minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has

the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put

into it."