Nicholas Sébastien

“Did I want to be like him? Did I want to be him? Or did I just want to have him? Or are “being” and “having” thoroughly inaccurate verbs in the twisted skein of desire,”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“It is the first thing I remember about him, and I can hear it still today. Later!”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“I (Socrates) know that ‘my knowledge is not complete’. I know my own ignorance. The Sophists, on the other hand, those would-be wise men, intend to understand everything and know nothing of their own ignorance. In this respect—my knowledge of my own ignorance—I am more of a wise man than they are. This is the context of Socrates’ famous statement, ‘I know that I know nothing.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“Later! always left a sharp aftertaste to what until then may have been a warm, heart-to-heart moment.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name