Volume IV, Part 1, Chapter 11
Pierre witnesses the execution of his fellow prisoners and loses faith in the world's order — preparing him for Karataev.
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From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Major characters encounter death as the engine of revelation: Andrei twice, Pierre under threat of execution, the old prince in dissolution.
Volume IV, Part 1, Chapter 16
Andrei's death-vision: "Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."
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