Leo Tolstoy in War and Peace: When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust — but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first

When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust — but love, and you a — Leo Tolstoy in War and Peace

When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust — but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.

Leo Tolstoy in War and Peace

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