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I am not the we of anyone.
― J. M. Coetzee
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Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.
Civilization
Corruption
People
Opposed

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.
Truth
Spoken
Beloved
Emerge
Light

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.
Book
Chop
Frozen
Inside

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.
Woman's
Beauty
Alone
Brings

Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.
Serious
Know
Consequences
Certainly

Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.
Pain
Truth
Else
Subject

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.
Opinion
Speech
Song
Need

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
We
Cultivate
Ignorance
Blindness

I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.
Going
Hole
Ground
We

If we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.
We
Going
Simple
Generosity

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