"He knows life... He knows all its vileness and all its beauty, and he knows how great life is, even with all its filth! Holy shit! - will have more to say about this to the world. The saints in heaven - how could they be clean and undefiled? They do not deserve the glory for that. But the saints who live in the mud - this, this is the eternal miracle! That's why it's worth living; so that people can see how moral greatness emerges from the contagion of sin; so that he himself would stand out from it, and as his eyes begin to clear, he would first vaguely catch a glimpse of the beauty looming in the distance. It is worth living so that people can see how strength, truth and soul emerge from all weakness, frailty, sin, and all bottomless meanness.
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He knows life... He knows all its vileness and all its beauty, and he knows how great life is, even with all its filth! Holy shit! - will have more to say about this to the world. The saints in heaven - how could they be clean and undefiled? They do not deserve the glory for that. But the saints who live in the mud - this, this is the eternal miracle! That's why it's worth living; so that people can see how moral greatness emerges from the contagion of sin; so that he himself would stand out from it, and as his eyes begin to clear, he would first vaguely catch a glimpse of the beauty looming in the distance. It is worth living so that people can see how strength, truth and soul emerge from all weakness, frailty, sin, and all bottomless meanness.
""Ismeri ő az életet... Ismeri minden aljasságát és minden szépségét, és tudja, hogy minden mocskával együtt, az élet mégis milyen nagyszerű! Istenuccse! - lesz még mondanivalója erről a világ számára. A szentek a mennyben - hogyne lennének tiszták és mocsoktalanok? Őket ugyan nem illeti ezért dicsőség. De a szentek, akik a sárban élnek - ez, ez az örök csoda! Ezért érdemes élni; azért, hogy az ember lássa, hogyan emelkedik ki a bűn fertőjéből az erkölcsi nagyság; azért, hogy kiemelkedjék belőle ő maga is, és ahogy kezd tisztulni a szeme, először pillantsa meg homályosan a távolban derengő szépséget. Azért érdemes élni, hogy lássa az ember: minden gyöngeségből, gyarlóságból, bűnből, minden feneketlen aljasságból hogyan emelkedik ki az erő, az igazság és a lélek."