Saturday, June 17, 2017

Suffering can be healed


"I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, 
that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish 
like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, 
at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious 
will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the 
comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the 
crimes of humanity, of all the blood that they've shed; 
that it will make it not only possible to forgive 
but to justify all that has happened."


Ivan, in The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky

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