"Natasha, in her lilac silk dress trimmed with black lace walked, as women can walk, with the more repose and stateliness the greater the pain and sham...

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.
~ Leo Tolstoy ~












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