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More Quotes by J. M. Coetzee
If we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.
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.
When all else fails, philosophize.
Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?
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.
Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.
The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.
Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.
Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.