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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
English translation: Constance Garnett
Human Nature
A quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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 continues his reflection on beauty.