Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all t…

Leo Tolstoy
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Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will be, the tragedy of the bedroom. ✨ Quoted in Maxim Gorky, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1920)
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