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More Quotes by J. M. Coetzee
When all else fails, philosophize.
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
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.
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.
Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.
If we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.
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.
Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.
You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.
