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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Tolstoy, Leo

Tolstoy, Leo
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
War And Peace: Book Five

Chapter One:

The story of Pierre is here continued. Since the duel with Dolokhov, he
has been in intense spiritual agony, questioning the value of human existence.
At a wayside station waiting for a change of horses, he ponders more deeply. A
fit of despair seizes him: "All we can know is that we know nothing. And
that's the height of human wisdom." Another traveler comes to the inn, "a
short, large-boned, yellow-faced, wrinkled old man ..." On his shriveled
hand he wears a strange ring with a seal representing a death's-head. Pierre

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