Niharika Sharma

“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling.

Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.”
― Albert Camus, The First Man

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

“He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.”
― Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy