Vissarion Belinsky Quotes:
Ocupation: Literary critic
Life: June 11, 1811 - June 7, 1848
Birthday: June 11
Death: June 7
But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for their exclusiveness and fall a prey to their own superiority. Natures of genius, themselves unaware of their genius, they are relentlessly killed by an unconscious society as an expiatory sacrifice to its own sins … Such is Pushkin’s Tatiana.
topic: Fall, Sacrifice, Genius, Pushkin
