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

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


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



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