“Prospero, you are the master of illusion.
Lying is your trademark.
And you have lied so much to me
(Lied about the world, lied about me)
That you have ended by imposing on me
An image of myself.
Underdeveloped, you brand me, inferior,
That s the way you have forced me to see myself
I detest that image! What’s more, it’s a lie!
But now I know you, you old cancer,
And I know myself as well.”
― A Tempest: Based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest;' Adaptation for a Black Theatre
Lying is your trademark.
And you have lied so much to me
(Lied about the world, lied about me)
That you have ended by imposing on me
An image of myself.
Underdeveloped, you brand me, inferior,
That s the way you have forced me to see myself
I detest that image! What’s more, it’s a lie!
But now I know you, you old cancer,
And I know myself as well.”
― A Tempest: Based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest;' Adaptation for a Black Theatre
“What, you egg? / [He stabs him.]”
― Macbeth
― Macbeth
“إذا صعدت الجبل فانظر إلى القمة ولا تلتفت للصخور المتناثرة حولك اصعد بخطوات واثقة ولا تقفز فتزل قدمك”
― استمتع بحياتك
― استمتع بحياتك
“After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.”
― Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
― Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
“To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
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