“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”

—  Leo Tolstoy , book Anna Karenina

(voice of Anna) C. Garnett, trans. (New York: 2003), Part 7, Chapter 24 p. 685
Source: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)

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