“The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself. ”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.”
― Jacob's Room
― Jacob's Room
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