Leo Tolstoy. War and peace (№ 372052)

- You don't understand why I say this, he continued. - It's a whole life story. You say Bonaparte and his career, said he, although Pierre is not talking about Bonaparte. - You say, Bonaparte; but Bonaparte when he worked out, step-by-step now was to the goal, he was free, he had nothing but his goal, and he achieved it. But tie yourself up with a woman, as a shackled convict, you lose all freedom. And all that is in you nalid and effort, everything is just a burden and repentance torments you. Drawing rooms, gossip, balls, vanity, nothingness - that's the enchanted circle I cannot get out. I now go to the war, the greatest war there ever been, and I don't know anything and are worthless. Je suis très très aimable et caustique, continued Prince Andrew, and at Anna Pavlovna listening to me. And this stupid society, without which can not live, my wife, and these women... If only you could know what it toutes les femmes distinguées and all women! My father is right. The selfishness, the vanity, the stupidity, the pettiness of all - that women kogda they are shown as they are. Look at them in the light, it seems that there is something, and nothing, nothing, nothing! Yes, do not marry, my soul, do not marry, - finished Prince Andrew.