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This reads as a call to stop postponing joy for a better time that may never come. It can be taken to mean that love and being loved are the only things with real weight, while everything else is secondary noise, which lands sharply in moments of loss, loneliness, or needless delay.
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About Leo Tolstoy
Russian writer
Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer. Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, he lived in the 19th and early 20th centuries and is known in English as Leo Tolstoy. He is regarded as one of the most influential authors of all time. His work has shaped later literature and readers continue to return to his writing for its scope and force.
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