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More Quotes by J. M. Coetzee
I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.
Because a woman's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.
If we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.
I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.
Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.
A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
I am not the we of anyone.
The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.
Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.
