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“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life. I am like a man yawning at a ball; the only reason he does not go home to bed is that his carriage has not arrived yet.”
― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“People don't save other people. People save themselves.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot