Beauty will save the world.

красотой можно мир перевернуть!

Adelaida

Quoted in The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Beauty Salvation

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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. "Идиот [The Idiot]." The Russian Messenger, 1868–69.

Current Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Idiot, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volkhonsky. Vintage, 2003, pt. 1, ch. 6.

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Man is a creature that can get used to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The House of the Dead

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Adaptability Nature of man

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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Source
The House of the Dead
Medium
Novel
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Definition
Language
Russian
Time
1860 1860s 19th century
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Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Записки из Мёртвого дома [The House of the Dead]." Vremya, 1860-1862.

Current Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The House of the Dead, translated by David McDuff. Penguin Classics, 1986.

Another quote from the 1860s

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Never giving up Perseverance
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Mr. Avery

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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Source
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Medium
Novel
Statement Type
Advice
Language
English
Time
1869 1860s 19th century
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Original Citation

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Oldtown Folks. Boston: Fields, Osgood, and Co., 1869, ch. 39.

Current Citation

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. "Oldtown Folks." Harriet Beecher Stowe: Three Novels: Uncle Tom's Cabin; The Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folks. Library of America, 1982, ch. 39.

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I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

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John 6:35

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Nature of Jesus Salvation Jesus
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Jesus
Source
Gospel of John The Bible
Medium
Scripture
Genre
Religious literature
Language
Greek
Time
90 90s 1st century
Era
Classical antiquity
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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (John 6:35).

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If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago

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Topic
Duality of man Good and evil

Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Source
The Gulag Archipelago
Genre
Political literature Historical literature
Language
Russian
Time
1973 1970s 20th century
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Citation

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. Архипелаг ГУЛАГ, Arkhipelag GULAG [The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation]. Vol. 1, YMCA-Press, 1973.