Niloo Inalouei

“Philosophers all through history have wasted their time on secondary questions, he said, while forgetting to ask the one that matters most, the question of Being. What is it for a thing to be? What does it mean to say that you yourself are?”
― Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café

“O sancta simplicitiatas! In what strange simplification and falsification man lives! One can never cease wondering when once one has got eyes for beholding this marvel. How we have made everything around us clear and free and easy and simple! How we have been able to give our senses a passport to everything superficial, our thoughts a godlike desire for wanton pranks and wrong inferences! —how from the beginning, we have contrived to retain our ignorance in order to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, thoughtlessness, imprudence, heartiness, and gaiety— in order to enjoy life!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“On every new thing there lies already the shadow of annihilation.”
― W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn

“We all grow into our coffins, Danny. And I saw myself growing into mine.”
― Fiona Mozley, Elmet