The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution. - Émile Zola

C'était comme un éclair de passion, rapide et aveuglant, dans un ciel mort.

A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy...It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.

Just as the frost that burns the crops, the hail that chops them down, the thunderstorms which batter them are all perhaps necessary, maybe blood and tears are needed to keep the world going.