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Count Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin
Anna’s brother and Dolly’s husband, Stiva Oblonsky, is a well-liked, social, merry aristocrat. Even though he has had an affair at the beginning of the novel, and even though his servants know that they should all be on Dolly’s side, they can’t help but still remain loyal to Oblonsky because of his joy in life and good humor. Even though Oblonsky himself knows he should feel guilty—he tries his hardest to feel guilty—he’s too constitutionally merry and loves life too much to become obsessively buried by consequences and anxiety. Oblonsky can smooth over nearly any awkward social situation. He lives for pleasure and spends beyond his means. Oblonsky does not have many moral scruples, but he’s not a bad person: he simply doesn’t seem to feel anything extremely deeply, content to live always on a sparkling surface.
Prince Stepan (Stiva) Arkadyevich Oblonsky Quotes in Anna Karenina
The Anna Karenina quotes below are all either spoken by Prince Stepan (Stiva) Arkadyevich Oblonsky or refer to Prince Stepan (Stiva) Arkadyevich Oblonsky. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 6, Chapter 16
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But even without looking in the mirror she thought it was still not too late. She remembered Sergei Ivanovich, who was especially amiable to her, and Stiva’s friend, the kindly Turovtsyn, who had helped her take care of her children when they had scarlet fever and was in love with her. And there was also one quite young man who, as her husband had told her jokingly, found her the most beautiful of all the sisters. And Darya Alexandrovna pictured the most passionate and impossible love affairs.
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Prince Stepan (Stiva) Arkadyevich Oblonsky Quotes in Anna Karenina
The Anna Karenina quotes below are all either spoken by Prince Stepan (Stiva) Arkadyevich Oblonsky or refer to Prince Stepan (Stiva) Arkadyevich Oblonsky. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 6, Chapter 16
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But even without looking in the mirror she thought it was still not too late. She remembered Sergei Ivanovich, who was especially amiable to her, and Stiva’s friend, the kindly Turovtsyn, who had helped her take care of her children when they had scarlet fever and was in love with her. And there was also one quite young man who, as her husband had told her jokingly, found her the most beautiful of all the sisters. And Darya Alexandrovna pictured the most passionate and impossible love affairs.
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