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The Path to Happiness Is Narrow But Easy - The Atlantic

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Tolstoy was onto something about unhappy families. The solution is to put your relationships first.

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 7:31 A nna Karenina , Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece of love and betrayal, begins in a moment of chaos for the Oblonsky family, when the father is discovered to be having an affair. With the parents distracted and distraught, the children “ran wild all over the house,” and every member of the family “felt that there was no sense in their living together.” Misery reigned. Hence the novel’s famous opening line: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” We all want to be happy and have happy families, so the Oblonsky hypothesis is troubl

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