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“Love and light have not availed against vitriol. What a horror would have seized us at the thought,…”
“Love and light have not availed against vitriol. What a horror would have seized us at the thought,…”

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“Love and light have not availed against vitriol. What a horror would have seized us at the thought, once upon a time! That short phrase can annul all Schiller. We have shut our eyes and stopped our ears, we have built huge philosophic systems to shield us from this tiny thought. And now — now it seems we have no more feeling for Schiller and the great systems, we have no pity on our past beliefs. We now are seeking for words with which to sing the praises of our former enemy. Night, the dark, deaf, impenetrable night, peopled with horrors — does she not now loom before us, infinitely beautiful?”

Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible

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