Mansimar Singh

“After all, you must understand that besides your pleasure there is such a thing as other people's happiness and peace, and that you are ruining a whole life for the sake of amusing yourself! Amuse yourself with women like my wife—with them you are within your rights, for they know what you want of them. They are armed against you by the same experience of debauchery; but to promise a maid to marry her… to deceive, to kidnap… . Don't you understand that it is as mean as beating an old man or a child?…”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”
― Haruki Murakami

“I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings