Hani Ansari

“Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism; and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law of consciousness abides.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson Self Reliance

“The very same thing, don't you see, may be looked at tragically, and turned into a misery, or it may be looked at simply and even humorously. Possibly you are inclined to look at things too tragically.”
― Tolstoy, Leo, Anna Karenina

“Art is childhood.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Life