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They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

Leo Tolstoy

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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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