Justin Burt

“The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere likeness of it, a mere reminder of it, is enough to fill a man with happiness.”
― Vasily Grossman, Everything Flows

“I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.”
― Federico García Lorca

“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
― Anonymous Greek Proverb

“There are no conditions to which a man may not become accustomed, particularly if he sees that they are accepted by those about him.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina