Anna Karenina
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Anna Karenina begins with the famous sentence “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
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Most enterprises fail — the so-called Anna Karenina principle.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
He also starred in thriller Nocturnal Animals, which he won a Golden Globe for in 2017, Anna Karenina, Godzilla and Tenet.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2024
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” opens Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 2, 2023
I was in high school when I first read Anna Karenina and encountered the most famous opening line in world literature.
From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2020
The great Anna Karenina, for instance, forced Vronsky into a certain position by the causeless jealousy of a maniac—yet that position was the only real solution to their problem, and it was the inevitable solution.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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