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)  

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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)  

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