66/82 Except this--that in the heart of every Russian there is a passionate love of goodness. We are tolerant to all evil, to all weakness because we ourselves are weak. You may bind us to you with bands of iron by your virtues--never, as all foreigners think, by your vices. In this, too, we are sentimentalists. We may not believe in God but we have an intense curiosity about Him--a curiosity that with many of us never leaves us alone, compels us to fill our lives, to fill our lives.... |