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“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be. Where God is, there is Love. Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. Leo Tolstoy Leo Tolstoy”

Quote by Leo Tolstoy

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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer and thinker, a prominent representative of 19th-century Russian literature. His works deeply revealed social contradictions and human nature, and had a profound impact on the world. more

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