Furthermore, the idea underlying it shows that it is ours, ours, something that belongs to us alone and that is our own property, our own national 'new word'or, at any rate, the beginning of it.
Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.
If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love..
Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and expiate not only your own sins but the sins of others.
Full freedom will come only when it makes no difference whether to live or not to live. That’s the goal for everyone.
Anna Karenina is sheer perfection as a work of art. No European work of fiction of our present day comes anywhere near it.
Furthermore, the idea underlying it shows that it is ours, ours, something that belongs to us alone and that is our own property, our own national 'new word'or, at any rate, the beginning of it.
Speak of a wolf and you see his tail
Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.
Beauty is a riddle
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3137322.Fyodor_Dostoyevsky?page=15
Is there beauty in Sodom? Believe me, that for the immense mass of mankind beauty is found in Sodom. Did you know that secret?
The awful 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.