Sheekha

“If the rules are such that you can’t make progress, then you have to fight the rules.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Inventing the Future

“He was very well aware that he ran no risk of being ridiculous in the eyes of Betsy or any other fashionable people. He was very well aware that in their eyes the position of an unsuccessful lover of a girl, or of any woman free to marry, might be ridiculous. But the position of a man pursuing a married woman, and, staking his life on drawing her into adultery, has something fine and grand about it, and can never be ridiculous; and so it was with a proud and gay smile under his mustaches that he lowered the opera glass and looked at his cousin.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“For love? What antediluvian notions you have! Can one talk of love in these days?" said the ambassador's wife.

"What's to be done? It's a foolish old fashion that's kept up still," said Vronsky.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina