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“I had a real life completely separate from beliefs, from the common reality made up of shared beliefs...”
― César Aira, How I Became a Nun

“It's life that matters, nothing but life—the process of discovering—the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself at all.”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

“I was almost unimaginably vague, not because I was stupid, but because nothing really mattered to me. This is an enormous paradox, because everything mattered to me, far too much; I made a mountain out of every molehill, and that was my main problem... I might have seemed indifferent, but nothing could have been further from the truth and I knew it.”
― César Aira, How I Became a Nun

“Everyone likes ice cream," he said, white with rage. The mask of patience was slipping, and I don't know how I managed to hold back my tears. "Everyone except you, son, because you're a moron.”
― César Aira, How I Became a Nun