“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.comTagged: Hell, Love, Relationships, Loving, Unable To Love
“Beauty! I can't bear the thought that man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom. What's still more awful is that man with the ideal of Sodom in his soul does not renounce the ideal of the Madonna, and his heart may be on fire with the ideal, genuin…”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Dmitri Karamazov, amazon.comTagged: Theory and Practice
“Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature... Would you consent to be the architect on t…”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ivan Karamazov, amazon.comTagged: Creation