19 April 2012

I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to

love in you that which is eternal and ever precious - your heart,

your soul.

Beauty one could get to know and fall in love with in one hour

and cease to

love it as speedily;

but the soul one must learn to know.

Believe me,

nothing on earth is given without labour,

even love, the most beautiful

and natural of feelings.

~ Leo Tolstoy

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