James Sutherland

“These people, carried away by their passions, were merely the blind executors of the most grevious law of necessity; but they considered themselves heroes and imagined that what they had done was a most worthy and noble thing.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“He spoke of...the people who had once made up the circle of the old countess' contemporaries, who had once been an actual, living, definite circle, but who now, mostly scattered over the world, were living out their time, as she was, gleaning the remaining ears of what they had sown in their lives.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“When you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American