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"...love filled his heart to overflowing and in loving his fellow-men without cause he never failed to discover incontestable reasons that made them worth loving."

"He was filled with dread; but he felt too that the harder that fatal force strove to crush him the more did his own individual vitality assert itself in his soul."

"...a superfluity of the comforts of life destroys all joy in gratifying one's needs..."

"Pierre was for the first time struck by the endless variety of the human mind, preventing any truth from ever presenting itself in the same way to any two persons."

"When [Prince Vasili] came across a man of position instinct immediately whispered to him that this person might be useful, and [he] would strike up an acquaintance and at the first opportunity, without any premeditation, led by instinct, would flatter him, treat him with easy familiarity, and finally make his request."

"In myself alone and in that sunshine there is so much happiness, while here...it is groans, suffering, confusion...death is all above me and around me...A moment more and I shall never see this sun, this river, that gorge again..."

This is eminently readable, what a pleasure!