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Quotation from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

“They took me and shut me up. They hold me captive. What, me? Me? My immortal soul?”

Leo Tolstoy (spoken by Pierre)

War and Peace, Book Thirteen, Ch. XIV, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude

Portrait of Leo Tolstoy

A prisoner of the French, Pierre laughs aloud under the stars at the idea that anyone could imprison his soul.

Citation: "They took me and shut me up. They hold me captive. What, me? Me? My immortal soul?" — Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Book Thirteen, Ch. XIV, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude. (id tolstoy-war-and-peace-q5)

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

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