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“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History