1 And the closer he looked the more tranquil and happy he became.
2 "Yes, that was happiness," she then said in her quiet voice with its deep chest notes.
3 What a happy thing that he saw you again, he added, suddenly turning to Natasha and looking at her with eyes full of tears.
4 And this very absence of an aim gave him the complete, joyous sense of freedom which constituted his happiness at this time.
5 She no longer complained of her position, did not say a word about the past, and no longer feared to make happy plans for the future.
6 And so, brother," he continued, with a smile on his pale emaciated face and a particularly happy light in his eyes, "you see, brother.
7 Pierre in shamefaced and happy confusion glanced occasionally at her, and tried to think what to say next to introduce a fresh subject.
8 She saw the possibility of love and happiness between Natasha and Pierre, and the first thought of this filled her heart with gladness.
9 And Natasha, embracing her, began kissing her face and hands, making Princess Mary feel shy but happy by this demonstration of her feelings.
10 He often surprised those he met by his significantly happy looks and smiles which seemed to express a secret understanding between him and them.
11 He had learned that as there is no condition in which man can be happy and entirely free, so there is no condition in which he need be unhappy and lack freedom.
12 Had I said what I thought, I should have said: even if he had to go on dying, to die continually before my eyes, I should have been happy compared with what I am now.
13 And these simple words, her look, and the expression on her face which accompanied them, formed for two months the subject of inexhaustible memories, interpretations, and happy meditations for Pierre.
14 The absence of suffering, the satisfaction of one's needs and consequent freedom in the choice of one's occupation, that is, of one's way of life, now seemed to Pierre to be indubitably man's highest happiness.
15 The Italian seemed happy only when he could come to see Pierre, talk with him, tell him about his past, his life at home, and his love, and pour out to him his indignation against the French and especially against Napoleon.
16 Prince Andrew had thought and said that happiness could only be negative, but had said it with a shade of bitterness and irony as though he was really saying that all desire for positive happiness is implanted in us merely to torment us and never be satisfied.
17 While imprisoned in the shed Pierre had learned not with his intellect but with his whole being, by life itself, that man is created for happiness, that happiness is within him, in the satisfaction of simple human needs, and that all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity.
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