Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Grotesque

 
For even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardor of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old. When it has been attempted, the result has been only grotesque. 
 
Father Païssy in The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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