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Khaled is Currently Reading

Khaled is currently reading

A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries

by Mircea Eliade

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Khaled’s Quotes

“Consciousness occupies the void which follows the mind’s erosion of existence.”
― Emil M. Cioran, A Short History of Decay

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“Poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

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“Art is dead, but the student is necrophiliac.”
― Internationale situationniste, On the Poverty of Student Life: Considered in Its Economic, Political, Psychological, Sexual, and Particularly Intellectual Aspects, and a Modest Proposal for Its Remedy

tags: art, humor, necrophilia, students

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“Language bears within itself the necessity of its own critique.”
― Jacques Derrida, Structure, Sign, and Play

tags: critique, deconstruction, language, structuralism

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“وقد فتشتُ عن أصحاب دين * لهم نُسْك وليس لهم رياء..
فألفيتُ البهائم لا عقول * تقيم لها الدليل ولا ضياء..
وإخوان الفطانة في اختيال * كأنهمُ لقوم أنبياء..
فأما هؤلاء فأهل مكر * وأما الأولون فأغبياء..
فإن كان التُّقَى بَلَها وعِيّا * فأعيار المذلة أتقياء..”
― أبو العلاء المعري, اللزوميات

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