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More Quotes by J. M. Coetzee
You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.
I am not the we of anyone.
Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.
The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.
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.
Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.
Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.
Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.
I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
