“Beauty — this is a frightful and terrible thing! Frightful, since that it is indefinable, and it is impossible to define it, since God hath made it entirely an enigma. Here the shores coincide, here all the contradictions live together… Beauty! Moreover I cannot bear it, that another, even more upright in heart a man and with a mind lofty, can begin with the ideal of the Madonna, and end up with the ideal of Sodom.”

F. Dostoevsky