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Beauty

A quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed and never can be fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

English translation: Constance Garnett

From the source

The Brothers Karamazov, Book III, Chapter III, “The Confession of a Passionate Heart”.

English translation by Constance Garnett. Historical translation reproduced in the linked source.

Dmitri speaks to Alyosha about beauty and contradiction.