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More Quotes by J. M. Coetzee
Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.
Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?
When all else fails, philosophize.
Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.
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.
I am not the we of anyone.
You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.
Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.
His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.
If we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.
