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Quotation from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
War and Peace, Book Twelve, Ch. XVI, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude
Andrew's thoughts in his last days, as Natásha nurses him, after he has forgiven his enemies.
Citation: "Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." — Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Book Twelve, Ch. XVI, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude. (id tolstoy-war-and-peace-q4)
Portrait: L.N.Tolstoy Prokudin-Gorsky, Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, Public domain.
