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Count Vronsky
- Vronsky: Our meetings are so brief, the dance also.
- Anna Karenina: But our reunions are so frequent.
- Vronsky: When I leave you, I'm lost in a world of strangers. When I touch your hand, we're alone.
- Anna Karenina: [Smiling as she switches dance partners] I return you to the world!
- Vronsky: As a matter of fact, I've been analyzing this code of ours, lately, and it doesn't stand up. For instance, one must always pay a card sharper; but, need not pay a tailor.
- Yashvin: Quite right.
- Vronsky: One must never tell a lie to a man; but, one may to a woman.
- Yashvin: Naturally.
- Vronsky: One must never cheat anyone; but, one may a husband.
- Yashvin: Inevitably.
- Vronsky: One must never pardon an insult; but, may freely give one.
- Yashvin: Obviously.
- Vronsky: Well, it's trivial! It's nonsensical!
- Yashvin: My dear Vronsky, has your liver been bothering you lately?
- Anna Karenina: I feel pain. I feel tears.
- Vronsky: Why?
- Anna Karenina: Because I'm so happy. Not to think, only to live, only to feel.
- Vronsky: You're trembling. Are you cold?
- Anna Karenina: We'll be punished.
- Vronsky: Punished?
- Anna Karenina: For being so happy.
- Vronsky: Shall we go out in a gondola in the Grand Canal, find the serenata?
- Anna Karenina: Yes.
- Vronsky: Shall we explore all the little canals, those murderous little water alleys where the Doges used to throw their enemies?
- Anna Karenina: Yes.
- Vronsky: Shall we go to St. Mark's and feed the pigeons?
- Anna Karenina: Yes.
- Vronsky: Shall we be really energetic?
- Anna Karenina: Yes.
- Vronsky: And go out on the balcony?
- [Anna and Vronsky laugh]
- Anna Karenina: I didn't know you were going back to St. Petersburg so soon. Why this change of plan?
- Vronsky: Why? To be where you are. You know that. Forgive me, I... I had to say it.
- Anna Karenina: You shouldn't. You shouldn't. You must forget that you said it.
- Vronsky: Nothing of you. I shall never forget anything of you.
- Vronsky: I love your frown when you concentrate.
- Anna Karenina: [playing croquet] How do you expect me to make this shot if you talk to me?
- Anna Karenina: You should've married Kitty. You would've been much happier with her.
- Vronsky: Anna, you brood to much. You spin fairy tales.
- Anna Karenina: I face the truth.
- Vronsky: What truth?
- Anna Karenina: That one day I shall find myself... *ALONE*.
- Vronsky: I want my comrades and my career! And love isn't everything.
- Anna Karenina: One only says that when love is over.
- Vronsky: And the breath of Russia is sweet. And sweet over all the land, broods the soul of Russia. Do you remember Pushkin's poem?
- Anna Karenina: You miss Russia. You miss home.
- Anna Karenina: Today, all day, I felt so alone.
- Vronsky: We must be careful. We mustn't hurt each other. That's why we hurt each other; because, we love.
- Anna Karenina: Yes. Yes, that's why.
- Anna Karenina: Is the Princess Sorokina staying at your mother's?
- Vronsky: Oh, I don't know. I suppose she is.
- Anna Karenina: Does your mother want you to marry the Princess Sorokina?
- Vronsky: Now, what makes you think that?
- Anna Karenina: It would be natural. The Princess Sorokina is so young and innocent. So like Kitty, isn't she?