"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...

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.
~ Leo Tolstoy ~












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