Stijn de Beer

“The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.”
― Augustine of Hippo

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

“If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

“The measure of love is to love without measure.”
― Augustine of Hippo