Achilles Alex

“No one understands now. Those who could
hear a song this deeply vanished long ago.”
― Li Po

“Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there has even been, and in him the problem of the noble ideal as such made flesh--one might well ponder what kind of problem it is; Napoleon this synthesis of the inhuman and the superhuman”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

“We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.”
― Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

“That's why Priscus is wisest of all: silence cannot be judged. Silence masks all things or no thing. Only Priscus can tell us what his silence conceals, but since he won't, we suspect him great.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian