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More Quotes by J. M. Coetzee
Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.
You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.
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.
I am not the we of anyone.
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.
The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.
I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.
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.
