The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
Leo TolstoyHe felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
Leo TolstoySeveral times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?" And I searched for an answer to my questions in every area of knowledge acquired by man. For a long time I carried on my painstaking search; I did not search casually, out of mere curiosity, but painfully, persistently, day and night, like a dying man seeking salvation. I found nothing.
Leo Tolstoy