Ali Khan

“Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.”
― Voltaire, Socrates

“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

“The biggest mistake you can make is thinking you know who you are.”
― J.P. Bloch, Identity Thief