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J M Coetzee Quotes
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I don’t think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted (J M Coetzee Quotes)
In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one’s birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one’s own (J M Coetzee Quotes)
The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself (J M Coetzee Quotes)
Long visits don’t make for good friends (J M Coetzee Quotes)
Unbelief is a belief (J M Coetzee Quotes)
The barbarians come out at night (J M Coetzee Quotes)
It is a world of words that creates a world of things (J M Coetzee Quotes)
Reason is simply a vast tautology (J M Coetzee Quotes)
Nothing is worse than what we can imagine (J M Coetzee Quotes)
I am corrupted to the bone with the beauty of this forsaken world (J M Coetzee Quotes)
And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant (J M Coetzee Quotes)
All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice (J M Coetzee Quotes)
I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted (J M Coetzee Quotes)
I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction (J M Coetzee Quotes)
Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences (J M Coetzee Quotes)
When all else fails, philosophize (J M Coetzee Quotes)
Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt (J M Coetzee Quotes)
Unimaginable perhaps; but the unimaginable is there to be imagined (J M Coetzee Quotes)
I am not the we of anyone (J M Coetzee Quotes)
A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us (J M Coetzee Quotes)
Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths (J M Coetzee Quotes)
There seemed nothing to do but live (J M Coetzee Quotes)
We are not by nature cruel (J M Coetzee Quotes)
If we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution (J M Coetzee Quotes)
You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.” “I'm going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all (J M Coetzee Quotes)
In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other (J M Coetzee Quotes)