Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to…

Leo Tolstoy
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Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn. ✨ LEO TOLSTOY (1961). ANNA KARENINA
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