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What is the essence of Christ’s ministry? He teaches men “not to commit stupidities.” All of Tolstoy’s brutal empiricism and aristocratic impatience resound in that extraordinary answer. The Dostoevskyan Christ, on the contrary, teaches men…

Today’s One-Liner (#318)

When the work of art invades our consciousness, something within us catches flame.  –George Steiner, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism, 45