Carolina QuotesThere is a sense in which Ivan's love of that little girl [in The Brothers Karamazov] is always in danger of becoming a kind of demonic compassion: a desire that she not exist at all, a conviction that it were better she had never been summoned into the wounded freedom of cosmic time or called into rational union with God than she suffer the wrongs done her at the hands of fallen creatures.
David Bentley Hart Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Chapter 2, Location 740
- work
- The Doors of the Sea (2005)
- year
- 2005
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