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Princess Hélène is Prince Vassily’s famously beautiful daughter. Unseemly rumors swirl around her, as she’s said to have many sexual affairs, even with her brother, Anatole. Though Pierre finds her vacuous and morally repugnant, he’s manipulated by Prince Vassily into marrying her in the winter of 1805. There are ongoing rumors of Hélène’s affairs; Pierre duels with Dolokhov over one such rumor, and he and Hélène separate for a few years. By 1809, Hélène heads a pro-French social circle in Petersburg, and officials and other aristocrats vie for her approval, though she is really quite shallow. She and Pierre reconcile around this time. However, in 1812, she converts to Catholicism and asks Pierre for a divorce so she can marry somebody else. Shortly after the battle of Borodino, she does suddenly, either from heart trouble or, it’s rumored, suicide.
Hélène Kuragin Bezukhov Quotes in War and Peace
The War and Peace quotes below are all either spoken by Hélène Kuragin Bezukhov or refer to Hélène Kuragin Bezukhov. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Volume 1, Part 3: Chapters 1–5
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“All this had to be so and could not be otherwise,” thought Pierre, “therefore there’s no point in asking whether it’s good or bad. It’s good because it’s definite, and there’s no more of the old tormenting doubt.” […]
“Something special is said on these occasions,” he thought, but he simply could not remember precisely what was said on these occasions. […]
“It’s too late now, it’s all over; and anyway I love her,” thought Pierre.
“Je vous aime!” he said, having remembered what needed to be said on these occasions; but the words sounded so meager that he felt ashamed of himself.
A month and a half later he was married and settled down, as they say, the happy possessor of a beautiful wife and millions of roubles, in the big, newly done-over house of the counts Bezukhov in Petersburg.
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Hélène Kuragin Bezukhov Quotes in War and Peace
The War and Peace quotes below are all either spoken by Hélène Kuragin Bezukhov or refer to Hélène Kuragin Bezukhov. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Volume 1, Part 3: Chapters 1–5
Quotes
“All this had to be so and could not be otherwise,” thought Pierre, “therefore there’s no point in asking whether it’s good or bad. It’s good because it’s definite, and there’s no more of the old tormenting doubt.” […]
“Something special is said on these occasions,” he thought, but he simply could not remember precisely what was said on these occasions. […]
“It’s too late now, it’s all over; and anyway I love her,” thought Pierre.
“Je vous aime!” he said, having remembered what needed to be said on these occasions; but the words sounded so meager that he felt ashamed of himself.
A month and a half later he was married and settled down, as they say, the happy possessor of a beautiful wife and millions of roubles, in the big, newly done-over house of the counts Bezukhov in Petersburg.
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