| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 61388 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), Russian novelist, philosopher. Prince Andrew, in War and Peace, bk. 12, ch. 4 (1868-1869). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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