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“While they drove past the garden the shadows of the bare trees often fell across the road and hid the brilliant moonlight, but as soon as they were past the fence, the snowy plain bathed in moonlight and motionless spread out before them glistening like diamonds and dappled with bluish shadows.”

Ah I’m still out here, and Tolstoy is doing it so well 🤧

“Why do I strive, why do I toil in this narrow, confined frame, when life, life with all its joys, it open to me?”

*Still here, and now with a such a sexy edition 😮‍💨

“The highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish to imbibe. Can I receive that pure liquid into an impure vessel and judge of its purity? Only by the inner purification of myself can I retain in some degree of purity the liquid I receive.”

“How strange, how extraordinary, how joyful it seemed, that her son, the scarcely perceptible motion of whose tiny limbs she had felt twenty years ago within her, should now be in a foreign land amid strange surroundings, without help or guidance.

Her son’s growth amazed her as if there had never existed the millions of human beings who grew up in the same way.”

“The boundary line between armies resembles the line dividing the living from the dead. And what is there? Who is there? There beyond that field, that tree? No one knows, but one wants to know. You fear and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just like you will inevitably have to learn what lies on the other side of death”

“The ball will be good, all the pretty women in society will be there”

“Not all, for you will not be there” said Prince Hippolyte, snatching a shawl and wrapping it round the princess. Either from awkwardness or intentionally (no one could’ve said which) after the shawl had been adjusted he kept his arm around her for a long time as though embracing her.

*It’s the flirting in front of her husband for me

I’m doing the damn thing.