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More Quotes by J. M. Coetzee
Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?
You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.
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.
If we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.
A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.
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.
Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.
The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.
