Juliana

“Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.”
― Umberto Eco, Numero Zero: An Acclaimed Political Thriller Unraveling Mussolini's Conspiracy, Media Hoaxes, and Italian History

“A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Summertime

“Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson