from Anna Karenina

Before any definite step can be taken in a household, there must be either complete division or loving accord between husband and wife. When their relations are indefinite it is impossible for them to make any move.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, part seven, chapter xxiii

‘But that’s how it is – people are different. One man just lives for his own needs, take Mityukha even, just stuffs his belly, but Fokanych – he’s an upright old man. He lives for his soul. He remembers God.’

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, part eight, chapter xi