Michelle Dan

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be
The candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
― Edith Wharton

“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
― Plato

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates