Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground is the heart of men.

“Is it true that you insisted you knew no difference in beauty between some brut…”

“One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense…”

“I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.”

“Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was alwa…”