Julia R

“Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ

“The door is open. Go.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

“Why, a dog, whenever he sees a stranger, is angry; when an acquaintance, he welcomes him, although the one has never done him any harm, nor the other any good. Did this never strike you as curious? The matter never struck me before; but I quite recognise the truth of your remark. And surely this instinct of the dog is very charming;—your dog is a true philosopher. Why? Why, because he distinguishes the face of a friend and of an enemy only by the criterion of knowing and not knowing. And must not an animal be a lover of learning who determines what he likes and dislikes by the test of knowledge and ignorance? Most”
― Plato, The Republic

“Three words, large enough to tip the world. I remember you.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue