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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.
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.
Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.
You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.
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.
When all else fails, philosophize.
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.
I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.
Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.
Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.
