Ahmad

“In this life, we are either kings or pawns, Emperors or fools”
― Napoléon Bonaparte

“Terribleness is part of greatness: let us not deceive ourselves.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

“You are as much as you know, and a wise person can do anything. A person without knowledge is a world in darkness.”
― Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies

“I have written of evil as Mickiewicz, Byron, Milton, Southey, A. de Musset, Baudelaire and others have all done. Naturally I pulled the registers in a slightly exaggerated way, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.”
― Isidore Ducasse