Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting …

Leo Tolstoy
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Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.
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Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2010). A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Writ … ▶
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Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I do what I cannot do. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (1998). The Kreutzer Sonata and Oth … ▶

Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.

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