Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it…

Leo Tolstoy
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Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2011). War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, p.1118, Vintage
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Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2011). War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, p.1118, Vintage

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