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Leo Tolstoy1828–1910

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

Leo Tolstoy on happiness

War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869), Book IV, Ch. 11

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