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More Quotes by J. M. Coetzee
Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?
Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.
Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.
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.
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.
I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.
I am not the we of anyone.
Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.
He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.
