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Quotation from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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

Leo Tolstoy (spoken by Narrator)

Anna Karenina, Part One, Chapter 1, trans. Constance Garnett (1901)

Portrait of Leo Tolstoy

The opening sentence, which introduces the quarrel in the Oblonsky household and the novel's concern with family life.

Citation: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part One, Chapter 1, trans. Constance Garnett (1901). (id anna-karenina-q1)

Portrait: L.N.Tolstoy Prokudin-Gorsky, Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, Public domain.

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