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More Quotes by J. M. Coetzee
I am not the we of anyone.
I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.
Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?
If we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.
Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.
Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
When all else fails, philosophize.
Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.
A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.
