Dostoevsky: cherish that ecstasy

Everything is like the ocean, I tell you. Then, in a kind of ecstasy, driven by an all-encompassing love, you would start to pray to the birds, and you would pray that they too should forgive your sins. Cherish that ecstasy, however absurd it may seem to people.

• Fyodor Dostoevsky from The Karamazov Brothers (1879)

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