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Tuesday, August 23, 2022
Bestial Cruelty
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Part II, Book V, Chapter 4 (tr. Constance Garnett):
People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.