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APPENDIX SOME WORDS ABOUT WAR AND PEACE (Published in Russian Archive, 1868) — Leo Tolstoy

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained. — Leo Tolstoy

WAR AND PEACE EPILOGUE — Leo Tolstoy

War is the most painful act of subjection to the laws of God that can be required of the human will. — Leo Tolstoy

And so there was no single cause for war, but it happened simply because it had to happen — Leo Tolstoy

The way to do away with war is for those who do not want war, who regard participation in it a sin, to refrain from fighting. — Leo Tolstoy

A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives. — Richard Dawkins

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. — Leo Tolstoy

Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material. — E.F. Schumacher

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible. — Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy's wife copied out the entire manuscript of War and Peace in longhand seven times. — David Markson

I reached over, opened it in the middle, and began reading Tolstoy's War and Peace. Nothing had changed. It was still a lousy book. — Charles Bukowski

Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace. — John Bayley

Send anyone who preaches war to a special frontline legion -into the assault, into the attack, ahead of everyone. — Leo Tolstoy

There are many premium writers, yes? Tolstoy, yes? He wrote War, and also Peace, which are both premium books. — Jonathan Safran Foer

What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing! — Leo Tolstoy

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. — Leo Tolstoy

All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom. — Leo Tolstoy

Inerrancy matters because it honors the Spirit, who wants to honor the Son, who wants to honor the Father. — Sinclair B. Ferguson

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad. — Leo Tolstoy

In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace. — J.G. Ballard

What an immense mass of evil must result ... from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen. — Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy had 13 kids and still wrote War & Peace. — Steven Pressfield

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy — Leo Tolstoy

I really want to leave something behind that means something when I'm no longer here. — Tyra Banks

I first read War And Peace about 100 years after Tolstoy wrote it. — Simon Schama

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war. — Leo Tolstoy

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. — Woody Allen

They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them. — Leo Tolstoy

It was all so strange, so unlike what he had been looking forward to. — Leo Tolstoy