Stijn de Beer

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.”
― Alexander Pope, Essay on Man and Other Poems

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet