In both books they were not allowed to feel love.
"Let me be accursed. Let me be vile and base, only let me kiss the hem of the veil in which my God is shrouded."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (tr. Constance Garnett)
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[Image ID: A poem by Molly Brodak. This name appears twice at the top, one in italics, the other in all caps. Below is the poem, which reads:
‘I am a good man.
The amount of fear
I am ok with
is insane.
I love many people
who don’t love me.
I don’t actually know
if that is true.
This is love.
It is a mass of ice
melting, I can’t hold
it and I have nowhere
to out it down.’ /End ID]
THE TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC (1962). Florence Delay is Joan of Arc in Robert Bresson’s trial reconstruction based on actual transcripts.
“But I do feel strange-almost unearthly. I’ll never get used to being alive. It’s a mystery. Always startled to find I’ve survived.”
— John Steinbeck, from Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters
