Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
In the original Russian
Ужасно то, что красота есть не только страшная, но и таинственная вещь. Тут дьявол с богом борется, а поле битвы - сердца людей.
The Brothers Karamazov · 1880
★ 5.6Provenance
Current citation
Dostoevsky, Feodor. The Brothers Karamazov, translated by David McDuff. Penguin Classics, 2003.
Original citation
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Братья Карамазовы [The Brothers Karamazov]." The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1879 - Nov. 1880. Serial.
