‘The most irksome thing of all is that I am always having to impersonate someone – the teacher, the philologist, the human being,’ he wrote after taking up the Basle professorship, and it was hardly a surprising feeling given that he was a young man dressing like an old man to impersonate wisdom, an undergraduate impersonating a professor, an exasperated son impersonating a good son to his irritating mother, and a loving and dutiful son to the memory of his dead Christian father while in the process of losing his Christian faith. As if these everyday impersonations were not enough, there was the question of his statelessness.

- I Am Dynamite, A Life Of Friedrich Nietzsche

سِرُّك أَسيرك فإنْ أفشَيتَه صِرتَ أسيرَه 

- علي بن أبي طالب (ع)

سِرُّك مِن دَمِك فلا يَجرِيَن مِن غَيرِ أوداجِك

- الإمام الصادق (ع)

لا يَكونُ المؤمنُ مؤمنًا حتى يكونَ فيهِ ثلاثُ خصال: سنّةٌ مِن ربِه، وسنّةٌ مِن نبيِه، وسنّةٌ مِن وليِه، فالسنةُ مِن ربه كتمانُ سِرّه، قال الله عزوجل: «عَالِمُ الْغَيْبِ فَلا يُظْهِرُ عَلَى غَيْبِهِ أَحَدًا إِلا مَنِ ارْتَضَى مِنْ رَسُولٍ»

- الإمام الرضا (ع)

There's a value in having secrets.
Creatures like myself, like Claire, like Zoe, we wouldn't be ourselves without them. But Peter Russo, on the other hand, he's trapped by his secrets. What I'm trying to do is give him the opportunity to set himself free.

- House Of Cards

بيتروف جان شخصية عظيمة جدًا

Everytime I see a pic of Simone de Beauvoir:

Everytime I see a pic of Foucault:
Step away from underaged boys*

Babylon (2022).

All tyrants suffered dangerously from the Herostratic impulse, Burckhardt believed, referring to Herostratus the Ephesian who set fire to the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, destroying that iconic symbol of culture for no better reason than the wish that his name should go down in history to the end of time.

- I Am Dynamite, A Life Of Friedrich Nietzsche

Mazzini’s farewell words were very touching. He asked me where we were going. I replied, “For Lugano, which from all accounts is a sort of Paradise.” He smiled, sighed a little and said, “For youth, Paradise is everywhere.”

- I Am Dynamite, A Life Of Friedrich Nietzsche

The Alexandrian man [and, to an extent, the modern man] is basically ‘a librarian and proof-reader, sacrificing his sight miserably to book-dust and printing errors¹’

¹The Birth Of Tragedy

Latin: Contra mundum

English: Against the world

Its embarrassing how sassy some guys are these days

اي والزهرة، شيكولون علينا الناس

امتحانات العملي، حرفيًا 😂