“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.”
— Leo Tolstoy, “War and Peace”
[born Sept. 8, 1828]

He wrote THE long story (War and Peace); turns out he could also write the short story. Here is a link to my favorite: http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/2896/ .

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