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« on: February 20, 2004, 11:43:38 PM »
I was wondering if anybody knew from which one of his works does the quote "The world will be saved by beauty, or it will not be saved" comes from.

Also it would be great if you could tell me where else Dostoevsky talks about beauty.
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« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2004, 01:16:41 PM »
Hmmm, good question.  I'll see what I can find.  I do believe beauty is talked about several times in Demons.
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« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2004, 05:24:12 PM »
What is your view on what "beauty" is?
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« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2004, 09:51:57 AM »
'Beauty will save the world.'  quote of Myshkin from The Idiot
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« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2004, 10:22:46 AM »
Quote from: marosh on March 16, 2004, 09:51:57 AM
'Beauty will save the world.'  quote of Myshkin from The Idiot

I think we have a winner in marosh!  Great quote...
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« Reply #5 on: March 16, 2004, 12:08:45 PM »
...what would it mean?
Beauty will save the world?  Come on .. and save it from what?
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« Reply #6 on: March 16, 2004, 12:22:47 PM »
Quote from: Fyodor on March 16, 2004, 10:22:46 AM
Quote from: marosh on March 16, 2004, 09:51:57 AM
'Beauty will save the world.'  quote of Myshkin from The Idiot

I think we have a winner in marosh!  Great quote...
Winner in marosh?
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« Reply #7 on: March 16, 2004, 02:08:45 PM »
Marosh was the first to post a 'beauty' quote from a Dostoevsky novel.  He 'wins'.  Wink
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« Reply #8 on: March 16, 2004, 02:14:31 PM »
2 questions:
1. There was a contest?
2. What does Marosh win?

Congarts Marosh!
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« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2005, 08:31:55 PM »
In an interesting footnote to this post I've just read that we never hear the Prince say these words but they are attributed to him by both Ippolit and Aglaya.          
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« Reply #10 on: March 19, 2006, 02:43:22 AM »
Not sure if you're still interested, but beauty is discussed at length in Demons by Stepan Trofimovich in "The Fete: Part 1" Chapter 4 where he argues mankind "cannot live without beauty."
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« Reply #11 on: March 19, 2006, 11:36:28 AM »
Quote from: Foxhead on March 16, 2004, 12:08:45 PM
...what would it mean?
Beauty will save the world?  Come on .. and save it from what?

From the evil deeds and desires of mankind.
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« Reply #12 on: March 20, 2006, 11:03:31 AM »
So ... beauty will save mankind from the evil that is in mankind?

Is there any other evil in the world, than the evil that is in man?


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« Reply #13 on: March 20, 2006, 12:53:55 PM »
From TBK

"Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side."
 

"The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man."
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« Reply #14 on: March 20, 2006, 05:05:15 PM »
And what do you think yourself?  Or are you a Dostoevsky-drone?
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