“Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went.
No, why?
You moved.
Just don't move.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
No, why?
You moved.
Just don't move.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
― Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”
― Семейное счастие
― Семейное счастие
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