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[Anonymous No.9933801]

>It is well known that in this world there are many such faces, over whom nature has not taken any great pains when it comes to the finishing touches, has not employed any fine tools such as files, gimlets, and the like, but has simply hewn them out with full swings from the shoulder: one swing of the axe and there's the nose, another swing and there you have the lips; she gouges out the eyes with a huge auger, and, without any fancy trimming, she pushes the end product out into the world, saying: "It lives".

Has anyone else ever written something that even comes close?

[Anonymous No.9933816]

>>9933801
>Has anyone else ever written something that even comes close?

Most of the people who are discussed here on a daily basis

[Anonymous No.9933917]

>>9933816
jk rowling and george martin?

[Anonymous No.9933932]

Gotta love Gogol

>This Church, like a chaste virgin, has alone been preserved from apostolic times in its original, immaculate purity; this Church, which with its profound dogmas and small external rituals has, as it were, been brought down from the heavens to the Russian people, is alone able to undo all the knots of doubt and answer all our questions…And yet we do not know about this Church! We have not yet brought this Church, which was created so that we might live, into our lives! Only one kind of propaganda is possible for us—our own lives. We must defend our Church with our lives, for she is life; and we must proclaim her truth by the fragrance of our souls.

[Anonymous No.9933942]

>>9933932
Where is this excerpt from

[Anonymous No.9933959]

>>9933942
Selected Correspondence.

[Anonymous No.9933989]

>>9933917
Extremely funny my man, welcome to /lit/