It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
("War and Peace")
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In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.Leo Tolstoy
Anything is better than lies and deceit!
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Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
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Sitting in his old schoolroom on the sofa with little cushions on the arms and looking into Natasha's wildly eager eyes, Rostov was carried back into that world of home and childhood which had no meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the greatest pleasure in his life.
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Enough or not...it will have to do
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But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to everyone that there was no merit in his kindness.
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