Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Ужасно то, что красота есть не только страшная, но и таинственная вещь. Тут дьявол с богом борется, а поле битвы — сердца людей.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

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Beauty

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Source

The Brothers Karamazov

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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Russia Europe

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Dostoevsky, Feodor. Братья Карамазовы (Brat'ya Karamazovy) [The Brothers Karamazov]. The Russian Messenger. Jan. 1879-Nov. 1880. Serial.

Current Citation

Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Everyman's Library, 1992, pt. 1, bk. 3, ch. 3.

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Time
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Dostoyevsky, Feodor. Crime and Punishment. The Russian Messenger, 1866, montly serial.

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Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen [Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None]. Ernst Schmeitzner, 1885, pt. 1, prologue, 4.

Another quote about Beauty

"Beauty" is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West it is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

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Time
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Wolf, Naomi. "The Beauty Myth." The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women. Chatto & Windus, 1990.

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But perhaps the universe is suspended on the tooth of some monster.

Anton Chekhov

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Anton Chekhov
Medium
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Language
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Time
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Chekhov, Anton. Personal notebooks. c. 1904.