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Quotation from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

“Above him there was now nothing but the sky—the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray clouds gliding slowly across it.”

Leo Tolstoy (spoken by Narrator)

War and Peace, Book Three, Ch. XVI, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude

Portrait of Leo Tolstoy

Prince Andrew, struck down at Austerlitz while carrying the standard, looks up from where he has fallen.

Citation: "Above him there was now nothing but the sky—the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray clouds gliding slowly across it." — Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Book Three, Ch. XVI, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude. (id tolstoy-war-and-peace-q2)

Portrait: L.N.Tolstoy Prokudin-Gorsky, Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, Public domain.

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