Tika

“Unfortunately, when you insist on doing everything your way, what usually happens is that you repeat someone else’s mistakes.”
― Augustine Wetta, Humility Rules: Saint Benedict's Twelve-Step Guide to Genuine Self-Esteem

“The general public long ago stopped looking for beauty in high culture. But it still has TV and the movies....you are far more likely to find genuinely mesmerising images and real beauty in big-budget Hollywood movies -- think of, say, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar or his Dark Knight Trilogy -- than in any European art-house”
― Sohrab Ahmari, The New Philistines

“The underground appeared in this novel as the failure and reversal of Christianity.”
― René Girard, Resurrection from the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky

“It has been said that depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself,”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West