Saturday, January 08, 2005

Dostoyevsky

"People often describe such human cruelty as "bestial," but that's, of course, unfair to animals, for no beast could ever be as cruel as man, I mean as refinedly and artistically cruel. The tiger simply gnaws and tears his victim to pieces because that's all he knows. It would never occur to a tiger to nail people to fences by their ears, even if he were able to do it."


February 9, 1996

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