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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.
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.
Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.
Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.
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.
I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.
Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.
