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“If you get a hard word from any one, keep silent, and his own conscience will accuse him.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy

“I didn’t want any new clothes at all; because if I had to look ugly anyway, I wanted to at least be comfortable. I let the awful clothes affect even my posture, walked around with my back bowed, my shoulders drooping, my hands and arms all over the place. I was afraid of mirrors, because they showed an inescapable ugliness.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

“But his voice was broken, his face pale,”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy

“It always amazes me how it is so easy to appear one way to the people around you but to live inside as someone else entirely.”
― K.L. Slater, Safe With Me