"The place where she stood seemed to him a holy shrine, unapproachable, and there was one moment when he was almost retreating, so overwhelmed was he with terror. He had to make an effort to master himself, and to remind himself that people of all sorts were moving about her, and that he too might come there... He walked down, for a long while avoiding looking at her as at the sun, but seeing her, as one does the sun, without looking."
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part 1, Chapter 9
"She was enchanting in her simple black dress.... enchanting the graceful, light movements of her little feet and hands, enchanting was that lovely face in its animation, but there was something terrible and cruel about her charm."
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part 1, Chapter 23
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