Why Should It Be Easy?
TOLSTOY
I’ve become convinced that all the world’s religions have a
single organizing principle. Can you guess what it is? Love! Love! Simple...
TOLSTOY
I didn’t come for more recrimination. Despite good cause for alienation between us, I have never stopped loving you.
SOFYA
Of course...
TOLSTOY
God knows you don’t make it easy.
SOFYA
Why should it be easy? I’m the work of your life. You’re the work of mine. It’s what love is.
From The Last Station, based on the novel by Jan Parini, screenplay by Michael Hoffman.
“The aims of art are incommensurate (as the mathematicians say) with social aims. The aim of an artist is not to solve a problem irrefutably, but to make people love life in all its countless inexhaustible manifestations. If I were to be told that I could write a novel whereby I might 
irrefutably establish what seemed to me the correct point of view on all social problems, I would not even devote two hours to such a novel; but if I were to be told that what I should write would be read in about twenty years time by those who are now children, and that they would laugh and cry over it and love life, I would devote all my life and all my energies to it.”
