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More Quotes by J. M. Coetzee
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.
I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.
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.
Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.
Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.
When all else fails, philosophize.
Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.
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.
You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.
