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Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Quotes: I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.
         

I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.


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I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.
         



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This page presents the quote "I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.". Author of this quote is Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov. This quote is about idealism, cynical, innocence, disappointment, cynicism, cynic, corruption, sodom,.