The Power of Self-Pity

Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was the book that brought Muhammad Vronski back to his wife, Ismaan. He went from self-pity to pity for her as he thought about how she suffered in prison. The two were reunited eight years later when they saw each other again after a decade apart. "I treat her as she deserved" is one of Tolstoy's most famous quotes.