“I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”

— Leo Tolstoy · Love quote

I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be. — Leo Tolstoy quote card
Writer · 1828 – 1910

Russian novelist, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

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