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“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
― No Man Is an Island
― No Man Is an Island
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
― The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi
― The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi
“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
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