Beauty will save the world.

красотой можно мир перевернуть!

Adelaida

Quoted in The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Topic

Beauty Salvation

Speaker

Adelaida

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Source

The Idiot

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1869 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Russia Europe

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Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Idiot. 1868, pt. 1, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Idiot. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volkhonsky. Vintage; Reprint ed., 2003, pt. 1, ch. 6.

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The strongest of all warriors are these two—Time and Patience.

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