Laura

“Willarski was a married man with a family, busy with his family affairs, his wife’s affairs, and his official duties. He regarded all these occupations as hindrances to life, and considered that they were all contemptible because their aim was the welfare of himself and his family.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“So wives of living men have started marrying again! Perhaps you think you have invented a novelty? You have been forestalled, my dear! It was thought of long ago. It is done in all the brothels,”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“the more tightly people are bound into a community that has the moral authority to restrain their desires, the less likely they are to kill themselves.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

“To Pierre that smile said plainly: “I am well, but my health is now of no use to anyone.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace