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This reads as an intense statement about love narrowing the world into presence and absence. It points to how one person can become the center of all feeling, so that life with them seems lit up and life without them feels emptied out. It lands most clearly in grief or longing, when emotion makes everything else recede into the background.
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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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