From War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Another beekeeper, who has studied the life of a hive more closely, says that a bee collects pollen in order to feed the young bees and rear a queen, and that its purpose consists in reproducing its kind.
From War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky A beekeeper, noting how a bee gathers flower pollen and brings it to the hive, says that a bee's purpose consists in gathering honey.
From War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky A poet admires a bee sucking from the cup of a flower and says that a bee's purpose consists in sucking up the fragrance of flowers.
From War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky A bee sitting on a flower stung a child. And the child is afraid of bees and says that a bee's purpose consists in stinging people.
From War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Because the question is no longer: "to move there" but to be "everywhere" and consequently also "There!"
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