You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as yo…

Leo Tolstoy
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You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2016). Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged), p.82, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
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