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The way Tolstoy infuses the spirits of men at war with truly sapphic levels of yearning, a marvel to behold

I read for a while this morning at 5AM. I reunion of Pierre and Natasha after his time as a prisoner of war of the French Army, after having saved a child from a burning building and defending a woman who had been attacked by French soldiers. This scene moved me to tears. Tolstoy is not brief, but he is a master storyteller.