“It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.”
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“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”
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“The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall, the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its source.”
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“Beauty will save the world.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
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