matilda haze

“making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact,”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“Grief felt fourth-dimensional, abstract, faintly familiar. I was cold.”
― Max Porter, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

“So, I begin each day with a gesture of cynicism, and close it with a gesture of faith; or, if you prefer, begin it by reminding myself that, for me at least, goals and objectives are without value, and close it by demonstrating that the fact is irrelevant. A gesture of temporality, a gesture of eternity. It is in the tension between these two gestures that I have lived my adult life.”
― John Barth, The Floating Opera

“There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones