#anna karenina quotes

[sadpotatoreads]

Then there's Tolstoy naming two main characters in his novel Alexei....

[odraziduse]

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

[amicus-noctis]

“…Many things interested her, and nothing satisfied her entirely.” ― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

[ilovehowyoufeel]

[allgarbo]

In her memoir printed in 1930 in Lektyr, the magazine published in Stockholm by her friend Lars Saxon, she described her technique in several sentences: "I live the part I am playing. I am completely under its spell, so that if anyone tries to speak to me or ask me questions, it wakes me up, so to speak." She followed the advice of both Delsarte and Stanislavski that actors should internalize a role until it becomes part of themselves. Mercedes thought that the characters Garbo played possessed her. The acclaimed directors Rouben Mamoulian and George Cukor agreed. Both said that her acting was intuitive; Mamoulian called it "a divine gift." (Mamoulian directed her in Queen Christina; Cukor in Ninotchka and Two-Faced Woman.)

But she prepared carefully for each role. She read books that provided context. Given her photographic memory, she memorized not only her own lines but also the lines of all the other actors. She practiced movements and gestures to find the ones she wanted to use. The producer Sam Marx saw her walking in the alley behind his office at MGM before filming began on Grand Hotel. She was pacing back and forth, varying her steps in speed and rhythm. Marx realized that she was figuring out how the ballerina she was playing in Grand Hotel should move.

In describing Garbo's acting, director Clarence Brown stressed the brilliance of her eyes. "She had something behind the eyes that you couldn't see until you photographed her in close-up. If she had to look at one person with jealousy, and another with love, she didn't have to change her expression. No other screen actress has been able to do that on film." The number of close-ups given to an actress in her films was considered a measure of her stardom; no other Hollywood actress in Garbo's era reached her total. Critics of Garbo’s acting charged that she was a somnambulist—that she sleepwalked through her films—which was characteristic of actresses in German expressionist films, which often were set in a dream landscape. (Ideal Beauty: The Life and Times of Greta Garbo)

[luciferslilith7]

"What do you want to be?"

THE VILLAIN

[angelofthenight]

*Adam walks into a room*

Rocket: Now there’s a phenomenon. (y/n)’s shadow has arrived before (y/n)

[katy71561]

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.”

- Oscar Wilde

[xxrrisxx]

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

Leo Tolstoy

[darkacademianew]

10 dark academia movies you might not know (part 3):

The Breakfast Club

Whiplash

The Falling

Licorice Pizza

Maurice

Anna Karenina

Cracks

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Nowhere Boy

Kill Your Darlings

[dewyhyacinth]

"There is a way out of every position. One has to take a decision"

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

... lights and shadows ...

" All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow. "

- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

[amicus-noctis]

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

Painting: "Sorrowing Old Man (At Eternity's Gate)" by Vincent van Gogh

[rouphicc]

If you love me, as you say,’ she whispered, ‘do so that I may be at peace.

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"-- that look, full of love she gave him, to which he made no response, cut her to the heart with an agony of shame."

~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (tr. Constance Garnett, Leonard J. Kent, & Nina Berberova)

[pennysparrows]

I looked for an answer to my question. And thought could not give an answer to my question—it is incommensurable with my question. The answer has been given me by life itself.

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Anna Karenina