War and Peace Bibliomancy Reading
This oracle points to a randomly selected line from War and Peace. The surrounding passages are provided for context.
Your passage is from BOOK ONE: 1805 - CHAPTER XXVIII.
* To understand all is to forgive all.
For Context: BOOK ONE: 1805 - CHAPTER XXVIII
Don’t forget that she has grown up and been educated in society, and so her position now is not a rosy one.
We should enter into everyone’s situation.
Tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner.
* Think what it must be for her, poor thing, after what she has been used to, to be parted from her husband and be left alone in the country, in her condition!
It’s very hard.”
* To understand all is to forgive all.
Prince Andrew smiled as he looked at his sister, as we smile at those we think we thoroughly understand.
“You live in the country and don’t think the life terrible,” he replied.
“I... that’s different. Why speak of me?
I don’t want any other life, and can’t, for I know no other.
But think, Andrew: for a young society woman to be buried in the country during the best years of her life, all alone—for Papa is always busy, and I...
