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Quotation from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
“I say things happen not as we plan but as God judges”
War and Peace, Book Twelve, Ch. XII, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude
The peasant soldier, a fellow prisoner, explains his acceptance of misfortune to Pierre in the shed where they are held.
Citation: "I say things happen not as we plan but as God judges" — Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Book Twelve, Ch. XII, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude. (id tolstoy-war-and-peace-q3)
Portrait: L.N.Tolstoy Prokudin-Gorsky, Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, Public domain.
