Axel

“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“The original is unfaithful to the translation.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

“Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being.”
― David Foster Wallace