Lumina

“if you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly, you are evil. morals have aesthetic criteria.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world provides the raw material and then steals it from me again, pulverized by events, scattered, broken, scored yet retaining its unity; how heavy it is and how inconsistent: this contradiction breeds many misunderstandings.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, After the War: Force of Circumstance, Volume I: 1944-1952

“Words are life, Liesel.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde