Book 3, Chapter 3
The terrible thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.Read in Books4Free →
Beauty as Battlefield
From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Mitya's famous meditation on the dual nature of beauty and the human heart as the battleground between God and the devil.
Book 3, Chapter 3
What's still more awful is that a man with the ideal of Sodom in his soul does not renounce the ideal of the Madonna.Read in Books4Free →
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