Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy · Prince Andrei's thoughts as he lies wounded at Borodino.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

Leo Tolstoy · Levin, three months married to Kitty, discovering what the wedding had made of them.

The whole world is now for me divided into two halves: one half is she, and there all is joy, hope, light; the other half is everything where she is not, and there is all gloom and darkness.

Leo Tolstoy · Prince Andrei confiding to Pierre that he loves Natasha, in War and Peace, Book 6, chapter 22, in the Maude translation.

To get rid of an enemy, one must love him.

Leo Tolstoy · The source reads: “To get rid of an enemy, one must love him, as it is also said in the "Teaching of the twelve apostles."” · A diary entry of 14 September 1896 at Yasnaya Polyana, citing the early Christian Teaching of the Twelve Apostles.

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Life with you is a perpetual honeymoon.

A short anniversary toast for a couple that never got over each other.

Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.

The four beat card rhyme that shows up on anniversary gifts everywhere; no author has ever been found.

Being someone's first love may be great, but to be their last is beyond perfect.

A widely shared anniversary line with no known author.

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“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.”

“The whole world is now for me divided into two halves: one half is she, and there all is joy, hope, light; the other half is everything where she is not, and there is all gloom and darkness.”

“To get rid of an enemy, one must love him.”

“Life with you is a perpetual honeymoon.”

“Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.”

“Being someone's first love may be great, but to be their last is beyond perfect.”