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How is it I did not see that lofty sky before? How happy I am to have recognized it at last! Yes, all is vanity, all is falsehood, except that infinite heaven.

— Prince Andrew Bolkonski (thought) · Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (1869), Book III, Chapter XVI, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude

Yes, the oak is right, a thousand times right,

— Prince Andrew Bolkonski (thought) · Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (1869), Book VI, Chapter I, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude

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