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Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will be--the tragedy of the bedroom.

Leo Tolstoy

1828-1910

Quoted in Maksim Gorky's _Reminiscences of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy_ [1920]

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