It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a

By Haruki Murakami

You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discovered it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky.

By James Baldwin

It is not beauty that keeps a relationship alive, it is attachment. Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex toy.

By Abhijit Naskar

Tolstoy described boredom as “a desire for desires,” while the working-class Chekhov wrote about it primarily as a desire for escape.

By Mary Mann

Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

By Gretchen Rubin
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