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War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 16: CHAPTER III
2 But by some strange chance no one perceives this.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 16: CHAPTER III
3 Innumerable so-called chances accompany him everywhere.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 16: CHAPTER III
4 The words chance and genius do not denote any really existing thing and therefore cannot be defined.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 16: CHAPTER II
5 Chance, millions of chances, give him power, and all men as if by agreement co-operate to confirm that power.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 16: CHAPTER III
6 The invaders flee, turn back, flee again, and all the chances are now not for Napoleon but always against him.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 16: CHAPTER III
7 I do not know why a certain event occurs; I think that I cannot know it; so I do not try to know it and I talk about chance.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 16: CHAPTER II
8 And by chance an escape from this dangerous position presents itself in the form of an aimless and senseless expedition to Africa.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 16: CHAPTER III
9 Napoleon himself is no longer of any account; all his actions are evidently pitiful and mean, but again an inexplicable chance occurs.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 16: CHAPTER III
10 Any guard might arrest him, but by strange chance no one does so and all rapturously greet the man they cursed the day before and will curse again a month later.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IV
11 Even if they do not know for what purpose they are fattened, they will at least know that all that happened to the ram did not happen accidentally, and will no longer need the conceptions of chance or genius.
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12 And all this was found in Alexander I; all this had been prepared by innumerable so-called chances in his life: his education, his early liberalism, the advisers who surrounded him, and by Austerlitz, and Tilsit, and Erfurt.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IV
13 Chance forms the characters of the rulers of France, who submit to him; chance forms the character of Paul I of Russia who recognizes his government; chance contrives a plot against him which not only fails to harm him but confirms his power.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 16: CHAPTER III