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“I’d lived more during the past two weeks than in all the years of my life put together... It was not just my tired limbs that were coming to life. It was also my soul... A soul only came forward when it found its twin…All I wanted was to pour out my heart to her, the good with the bad, the weaknesses with the strengths... I had so much to say to her…enough to fill a lifetime.”

"Even a fool could have a soul whose torments were a constant source of amazement. Why are we so slow to see this, and why do we assume that it is the easiest thing in the world to know and judge another? Why, when we are so reluctant even to describe a wedge of cheese we are seeing for the first time, do we draw our final conclusions from our first encounters with people, and happily dismiss them?"

"Our district self-government and all the rest of it—it’s just like the birch branches we stick in the ground on Trinity Day, for instance, to look like a copse which has grown up of itself in Europe, and I can’t gush over these birch branches and believe in them."

Tolstoy is a genius; if I, too, were born in 1828, I would've been able to pull him -- 100%.