Mr Shahabi

“Even while you know you are practicing a kind of deception on yourself, act like a king. You are likely to be treated as one.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“The spectacle does not realize philosophy, it philosophizes reality, reducing everyone’s concrete life to a
universe of speculation.”
― Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

“Anything approaching the change that came over his features i have never seen before and hope to never see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror, of intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that Supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision, he cried twice, a cry that was no more than a breath.. "The Horror! The Horror!”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“All warfare is based on deception.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War