“YOU LIKE THAT KIND OF BEAUTY?” Madame Epanchin

“SUCH BEAUTY IS POWER” responded her cultivated daughter Adelaida, a painter … “ONE COULD TURN THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN WITH BEAUTY LIKE THAT”

“IS IT TRUE, PRINCE, YOU ONCE SAID. “IT IS BEAUTY THAT WILL SAVE THE WORLD?” Hippolite Terentiev

From ‘The Idiot’ 1868-69