“The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love. ” 

― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“You built your walls too, she tells him. So I have my wall. She says it glittering in a beauty he cannot stand. She with her beautiful clothes with her pale face that laughs at everyone who smiles at her...” 

― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient