"When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be."
"The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible."
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Source: Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.1344, Modern Library
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