Clergyman's

“Thoughts and sorrows seem to have remained on the other side of the mountains. Between tormented men and hateful deeds, a person has to think and sorrow so much! Back there it is so difficult and so desperately important to find a reason for staying alive. How else should a person go on living? Sheer misery makes one profound.”
— Hermann Hesse

“Naked greed has been the moving spirit of civilization from the first day of its existence to the present time; wealth, more wealth, and wealth again; wealth not of society, but of this shabby individual was its sole and determining aim.”
— Friedrich Engels

“An obscure flesh-and-blood Gascon, forgotten by History, transformed into a legendary giant by the novelist’s genius”
— Arturo Pérez-Reverte