private and selective independent count pierre bezukhov of tolstoy's war & peace.

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❝ pierre was a great gentleman, the rather blind and absurd husband of a distinguished wife, a clever crank who did nothing but harmed nobody and was a first-rate, good-natured fellow. but a complex and difficult process of internal development was taking place all this time in pierre's soul, revealing much to him and causing him many spiritual doubts and joys.

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