"Boredom: the desire for desires.

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.
~ Leo Tolstoy ~












Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

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"And where love ends, hate begins
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