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More Quotes by J. M. Coetzee
Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.
You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.
Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.
Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.
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.
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.
Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.
If we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.
