The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...
("War and Peace")
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I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?
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