Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
(Leo Tolstoy)
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my psychiatrist just diagnosed me with 19th century russian literature character
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It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
Leo Tolstoy
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To make life a romance is the only thing worth doing.
Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness (1859)
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"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow"
Let's do this, 2024 🥂
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Audrey Hepburn and Anita Ekberg on set of War and Peace, 1956
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If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.
(Leo Tolstoy)
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Ava Gardner reading War and Peace, c.1946
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
Leo Tolstoy
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War and Peace (Natasha at Otradnoye) by A. Nikolaev, 1977
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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