All these traces of his old life seemed to seize hold of him and say, 'No, you will not escape us and will not be different, but will remain such as you have been: full of doubts; full of dissatisfaction with yourself, and of vain attempts at improvement followed by failures, and continual hopes of happiness which has escaped you and is impossible for you.'

03/12/08

Levin in Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy