Book: War and peace

And only the sky promised tranquility.

He told them his Schengraben affair in exactly the same way as they usually tell about the battles who participated in them, that is, the way they would like it to be, the way they had heard from other storytellers, the way it was more beautiful to tell, but absolutely not the way it was.

Throughout his life, he looked at it as a continuous amusement, which for some reason someone such undertook to arrange for him.

Is it possible to judge the father? And if it were possible, what other feeling, besides veneration, can a man like mon pere arouse? And I am so pleased and happy with him. I just wish you all were as happy as I am.

I'm a different matter. What can I say! I don't want another life, and I can't want it because I don't know any other life.

I will remember that one cannot expect a reward in this world, that there is neither honor nor justice in this world. In this world, one must be cunning and evil.

Everything is God's will: you will die on the stove, and God will have mercy in battle.

I am convinced that russians must die or win.

- 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.

Nothing was again said to himself Pierre - nothing came up. We can know only that we know nothing. And it is the highest degree of human wisdom.

The subject of history is the life of peoples and humanity. Directly to capture and embrace - the word to describe the life not only of mankind, but of one people, seems impossible.

Unhealthy, brother, there are only fools and Libertines, and you know me: from morning to evening busy vosbergen, well and healthy.

During this journey he as if once again thought about his entire life and came to the same old, sedative and hopeless, to the conclusion that he start and did not need anything that he needs to live his life, doing no evil, not worrying and not wanting anything.

Spring, love and happiness! - like said the oak. - And how will not bother you all the same stupid, senseless deception! All the same, and all of the hype! There is no spring, no sun, no happiness. Vaughn look, sitting crushed dead firs, always the same, and Vaughn and I spread my broken, tattered fingers, where they grew up - from behind, from the sides. As a grown up - so stand up, and do not believe in your hopes and deceptions.