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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.
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.
Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.
Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.
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.
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.
A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.
If we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.
You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.
