Ahmad

“The reading of history very soon made me feel that I was capable of achieving as much as the men who are placed in the highest ranks of our annals.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte

“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

“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