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“ truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. ”

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I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}

~ Leo Tolstoy

I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.

~ Leo Tolstoy