“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
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“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.”
― The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
― The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
“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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