Samvid Sharma

“When I die, I hope to go to heaven-- whatever the hell that is-- and I want to be able to afford the price of admission,"

"Virtue is the price of admission." Jim said haughtily.

"That's what I mean, James. So I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all-- that I was a man who made money. "
"Any grafter can make money."
"James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy. Doubt meets disbelief and disbelief tries to push it out. But disbelief is a poorly armed foot soldier. Doubt does away with with little trouble. You become anxious. Reason comes to do battle for you. You are reassured. Reason is fully equipped with the latest weapons technology. But, to your amazement, despite superior tactics and a number of undeniable victories, reason is laid low. you feel yourself weakening, wavering. Your anxiety becomes dread. ”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already
accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings