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More Quotes by J. M. Coetzee
If we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.
When all else fails, philosophize.
Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?
Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.
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.
Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.
I am not the we of anyone.
I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.
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.
Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.
