War & Peace (TV Series)
The Road to Life (1973)
Angela Down: Princess Maria Bolkonskya
Quotes
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Princess Maria Bolkonskya : Such savagery! What you've been through!
Pierre Bezukhov : Well, it's curious, you know. It sounds awful, and in its way it was awful, but in another way, I wouldn't have missed it for the world. It sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? Anyway, it's all over now.
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Pierre Bezukhov : Why should he, so full of life, why should he die like that?
Princess Maria Bolkonskya : Because God wills it.
Natasha Rostova : Why? Why should he will such a thing?
Princess Maria Bolkonskya : Natasha, how can you ask that?
Natasha Rostova : Well, I do. Why?
Pierre Bezukhov : Well, who knows? I only know that such losses would be impossible to bear if we didn't believe it.