The Idiot
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
the portrait of Nastasya, in which the prince reads suffering and pride (Part One, ch. III), the beauty that is an enigma (Part One, ch. VII), the instant before the attack, which he calls beauty and prayer (Part Two, ch. V), the phrase that beauty will save the world in Hippolyte's mouth (Part Three, ch. V), Rogozhin's painting, in which there is no beauty at all (Part Three, ch. VI), the fly in the sunbeam (Part Three, ch. VII), Aglaya's warning (Part Four, ch. VI), the tree and the child in the speech (Part Four, ch. VII), and the fear of Nastasya's face (Part Four, ch. IX).