"We are shocked by thieves taking pride in their clever touch, prostitutes in their depravity and murderers in their callousness. But it is shocking on...

I suffered most from the feeling that custom was daily petrifying our lives into one fixed shape, that our minds were losing their freedom and becoming enslaved to the steady passionless course of time.
~ Leo Tolstoy ~












I suffered most from the feeling that custom was daily petrifying our lives into one fixed shape, th...
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