Oliver

“Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection

“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

“But as the good-hearted young man discovers, a hero is not merely born, he is honed in the moments when his love and loyalty are the most sorely tested.”

― Jin Yong”
― Jin Yong, A Hero Born

“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