In His Library He Had Been Always Sure Of Leisure And Tranquillity; And Though Prepared, As He Told Elizabeth,

“In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquillity; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room of the house, he was used to be free from them there; […].”

— Jane Austen, from ‘Pride and Prejudice’ (1813)

“Why do evil?” “So that everything might be destroyed. Ah, how nice it would be if everything were destroyed! [...]."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, from ’The Brothers Karamazov’, first published in 1880. (as translated by Constance Garnett)

"Brigandage was an access of heroic folly and desperate savagery, a desire for wreaking death and ruin, with no hope of final victory. "If the world had only one enormous heart, I'd tear it out," said Caruso, one of the most fearful brigand chiefs."

-Carlo Levi, as translated by Frances Frenaye, from ‘Christ Stopped at Eboli’, first published in 1945.

"It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive." "No, God won't have the satisfaction that I shall,"

Emily Brontë, from 'Wuthering Heights', first published in 1847.

"Beautiful lonely walk [...]."

Franz Kafka, from a diary entry dated December 8th 1911, featured in 'Diaries'. (translated by Joseph Kresh)

“Behind their veils the women were like wild beasts.”

— Carlo Levi, as translated by Frances Frenaye, from ‘Christ Stopped at Eboli’, first published in 1945.