Father Zossima in The Brothers Karamazov: "Look around you at the gifts of God, the clear sky, the pure air, the tender grass, the birds; nature is beautiful and sinless, and we, only we, are sinful and foolish, and we don't understand that life is heaven...
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...We only have to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep." --Fyodor Dostoevsky, d., Jan 28, 1881 woodcut by Fritz Eichenberg

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