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Audrey
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“To imagine a man perfectly free and not subject to the law of inevitability, we must imagine him all alone, beyond space, beyond time, and free from dependence on cause.”
As I finish War and Peace, I would like to thank:
(1) My cinnamon tea, which fueled my eyeballs to read these 600,000 words
(2) My cat, to whom I ranted endlessly about Prince Andrei and Nikolai
(3) Tolstoy’s wife, Sophia, who edited this beast
— Apr 19, 2026 01:11PM
As I finish War and Peace, I would like to thank:
(1) My cinnamon tea, which fueled my eyeballs to read these 600,000 words
(2) My cat, to whom I ranted endlessly about Prince Andrei and Nikolai
(3) Tolstoy’s wife, Sophia, who edited this beast
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Audrey
is on page 1250 of 1370
“You love him?”
“Yes.”
“Then why are you crying?”
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I am not mentally prepared for this book to be over 😭
— Apr 18, 2026 08:11PM
“Yes.”
“Then why are you crying?”
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I am not mentally prepared for this book to be over 😭
Audrey
is on page 1227 of 1370
“That dreadful question, ‘What for?’ which had formerly destroyed all his mental edifices, no longer existed for him. To that question, ‘What for?’ a simple answer was now always ready in his soul: ‘Because there is a God, that God without whose will not one hair falls from a man’s head.’”
— Apr 18, 2026 07:35AM
Audrey
is on page 1208 of 1370
“She did not know and would not have believed it, but beneath the later of slime that covered her soul and seemed to her impenetrable, delicate young shoots of grass were already sprouting, which taking root would so cover with their living verdure the grief that weighed her down that it would soon no longer be seen or noticed. The wound had begun to heal from within.”
— Apr 17, 2026 07:48PM
Audrey
is on page 1194 of 1370
“When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving concept of ‘greatness.’ ‘Greatness,’ it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the ‘great’ man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a ‘great’ man can be blamed.”
— Apr 16, 2026 07:21PM
Audrey
is on page 1144 of 1370
“A man in motion always devises an aim for that motion. To be able to go a thousand miles he must imagine that something good awaits him at the end of those thousand miles. One must have the prospect of a promised land to have the strength to move.”
— Apr 16, 2026 04:56AM
Audrey
is on page 1000 of 1370
The comparison of abandoned Moscow to an empty beehive and the proceeding death of Vereshchágin at the hands of the crowd—wow. Tolstoy, once again, has left me speechless.
— Apr 08, 2026 07:18PM
