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He concluded that there was effectively no way for an accountant assigned to audit a giant Wall Street firm to figure out whether it was making money or losing money.
“The Word, when it was made flesh, passed from ubiquity to space, from eternity to history, from limitless satisfaction to change and death;”
― Labyrinths
― Labyrinths
“The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.”
― Labyrinths
― Labyrinths
“Borelius inquires mockingly: “Why didn’t he renounce his renunciation? Or renounce the idea of renouncing his renunciation?”
― Labyrinths
― Labyrinths
“I am pleased with defeat because it has occurred, because it is irrevocably united to all those events which are, which were, and which will be, because to censure or to deplore a single real occurrence is to blaspheme the universe.”
― Labyrinths
― Labyrinths
“some preached asceticism, others licentiousness. All preached confusion.”
― Labyrinths
― Labyrinths
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
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