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Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there's always something to be thankful for.
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I’d tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts ‘to be like the rest’ –and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I’d give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again – in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Anna Karenina
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Anna Karenina
“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“was rubble and broken glass, what one poet would memorably describe as “Belfast confetti.”
― Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
― Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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