Leo Tolstoy quote about love

“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone.”

– Leo Tolstoy

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Sources:

• Portrait of Leo Tolstoy taken in 1897 / Leo Tolstoy. [Place not identified: Publisher not identified] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2014645312/>.

• “Leo Tolstoy 1897, black and white, 37767u.” Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Foundation, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leo_Tolstoy_1897,_black_and_white,_37767u.jpg