Hlomla Makwetu

“I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead

“To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando