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All these traces of his life seemed to seize hold of him and say to him: “No, you won’t escape us and be different, you’ll be the same as you were: with doubts, an eternal dissatisfaction with yourself, vain attempts to improve, and failures, and an eternal expectation of the happiness that has eluded you and is not possible for you”.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Posted on March 27, 2013 (♥ 19)
+ Leo Tolstoy + Anna Karenina + life + change + depression + dissatisfaction + failure + expectation + happiness + impossible + self-doubt + escape
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I myself did not know what I wanted. I was afraid of life, I struggled to get rid of it, and yet I hoped for something from it.
— Leo Tolstoy
Posted on July 11, 2012 (♥ 17)
+ depression + leo tolstoy + want + life + afraid + anxiety + hope + meaning + dreams + confusion + suicide
