Aabha Sharma

“No, my son; Christ did not teach us foolish people to act in such a way. If any one should say an unkind word to you it is better not to answer at all; but if you do reply do it kindly, and his conscience will accuse him, and he will regret his unkindness to you.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy

“It’s all very well your complaining about the rich, but when good fortune brings you money, you simply don’t have the courage of your convictions to give it back to the poor…You will never deserve to be happy while you still have things you call your own or while your hatred of the bourgeoisie is still no more than a desperate desire to be bourgeois yourselves.”
― Émile Zola, Germinal

“At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,” was his mildly cadaverous reply.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby; the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

“Today was a sad, rainy day, without a ray of hope, just like my future old age.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights