“He was a child; but he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he guarded it as the eyelid guards the eye, and without the key of love he let no one into his soul.”
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”