“He felt he was himself and did not want to be otherwise. He only wanted to be better than he had been before.”
More from Leo Tolstoy
“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended…”
“But their eyes when they met spoke more fondly and kissed tenderly.”
“Everything I know, I know because of love.”
“Everything is, everything exists, only because I love”