Alitzel

“Why do men and women like to advertise themselves so much? Is it not but an instinct derived from the days of slavery?”
― Okakura Kakuzō

“Hygge is a state of being you experience if you are at peace with yourself, your spouse, the tax authorities and your inner organs.”
― Tove Ditlevsen

“In the end, the problem is not so much that people forget, but that they do not always forget the same thing. What still exists as a memory for one person can be irretrievably lost for another, and this creates difficulties, insuperable barriers against understanding.”
― Paul Auster, In the Country of Last Things

“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel