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More Quotes by J. M. Coetzee
Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.
Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?
The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.
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.
When all else fails, philosophize.
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.
Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.
Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.
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.
I am not the we of anyone.
