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Conceit is incompatible with understanding.
Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.
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The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.
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