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More Quotes by J. M. Coetzee
I am not the we of anyone.
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.
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
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.
Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.
If we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.
Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.
I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.
A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.
Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.
