Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think ab…

Leo Tolstoy
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Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2010). A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se, p.48, Simon and Schuster
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