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More Quotes by J. M. Coetzee
Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.
I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.
Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.
If we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.
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.
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.
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.
When all else fails, philosophize.
Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.
