“We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness.”

—  Paullina Simons, book Tatiana and Alexander

Source: Tatiana and Alexander

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Russian writer 1963

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