Matthew Grech

“For the secret of human existence lies not only in living, but in knowing what to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.”
― Toni Morrison

“And is it only a dream, that in the end man will find his joy in deeds of enlightenment and mercy alone, and not in cruel pleasures as now?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Here is a man who was resigned to his fate, who was walking to the scaffold and about to die like a coward, that's true, but at least he was about to die without resisting and without recriminations. Do you know what gave him that much strength? Do you know what consoled him? It was the fact that another man was to die like him, that another man was to die before him! Put two sheep in the slaughter-house or two oxen in the abattoir and let one of them realize that his companion will not die, and the sheep will bleat with joy, the ox low with pleasure. But man, man whom God made in His image, man to whom God gave this first, this sole, this supreme law, that he should love his neighbour, man to whom God gave a voice to express his thoughts - what is man's first cry when he learns that his neighbour is saved? A curse. All honour to man, the masterpiece of nature, the lord of creation!”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo