Oliver

“It was quite evident that all the misery of the people or, at least by far the greater part of it, was caused by the fact that the land which should feed them was not in their hands, but in the hands of those who, profiting by their rights to the land, live by the work of these people.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection

“The law of self-destruction and the law of self-preservation are equally powerful in humankind! The devil rules over mankind equally until a time that is not revealed to us.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins

“Because I know (this may be blasphemy, but it is true), the only holiday for me is to be with her, to have her near me, shoulder to shoulder. And without her, tomorrow's sun will be nothing but a small circle cut of tin, and the sky, tin painted blue, and I myself...”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin