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I wasn't sure I wanted to read this book but now you've won me over mr Osman" — Sep 04, 2025 12:10PM
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I wasn't sure I wanted to read this book but now you've won me over mr Osman" — Sep 04, 2025 12:10PM
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"It's all going so well, weird, interesting and then bang he just makes a disgustingly sexist comment and ruins it. FFS man!!" — Sep 01, 2025 02:44PM
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“But one thing I beg of you, look on me as your friend; and if you want some help, advice, or simply want to open your heart to someone- not now, but when things are clearer in your heart- think of me.' He took her hand and kissed it. 'I shall be happy, if I am able...' Pierre was confused.
'Don't speak to me like that; I'm not worth it!' cried Natasha...
'Hush, hush your whole life lies before you,' he said to her.
'Before me! No! All is over for me,' she said, with shame and humiliation.
'All over?' he repeated. 'If I were not myself, but the handsomest, cleverest, best man in the world, and if I were free I would be on my knees this minute to beg for your hand and your love.”
― War and Peace
'Don't speak to me like that; I'm not worth it!' cried Natasha...
'Hush, hush your whole life lies before you,' he said to her.
'Before me! No! All is over for me,' she said, with shame and humiliation.
'All over?' he repeated. 'If I were not myself, but the handsomest, cleverest, best man in the world, and if I were free I would be on my knees this minute to beg for your hand and your love.”
― War and Peace
“Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.”
― Война и мир
― Война и мир
“I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
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