“Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.”
Armonía es puro amor, porque el amor es concierto.
Fuenteovejuna (1613), Barrildo, Act I.
“Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”
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Leo Tolstoy
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War and Peace
Bk. XV, ch. 1
Source: War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869)
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