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More Quotes by J. M. Coetzee
Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.
Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.
Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.
Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light.
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.
Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.
He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.
Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.
I am not the we of anyone.
