Matthew

“Their love was great. Most people experience love without becoming aware of the extraordinary nature of this emotion. But to them—and this made them exceptional—the moments when passion visited their doomed human existence like a breath of eternity were moments of revelation, of continually new discoveries about themselves and life.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“Which is better, to vote for what you want and can’t get, or to vote for what you don’t want and get it?”
― Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

“He had managed to get the good things in life, somehow—but why at least could he not go off and enjoy them, without coming to taunt the poor with their misfortune?”
― Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

“You wouldn’t believe what spite and superstition there is in the world.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago