Saturday, March 7, 2009

Tolstoy quoting Ecclesiastes

In Tolstoy's War and Peace, there is a direct (almost) quotation of the theme verse of Ecclesiastes, "All is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky. There is nothing, nothing, but that. But even it does not exist, there is nothing but quiet and peace." Part Three, chapter 16, page 294.

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