“Omnivore, omnifume, omniboit, omnivoit. Ne znaš odabrati, to je uvijek nedostatak izvrsnosti. Zato si ti svaštar. To je netko kome je sve lijepo. Život je za takve prekratak. Condition humaine to ne dopušta. Doista lijepim možeš smatrati samo ono u… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus -… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
“We are our secrets, and, if all goes well, we will take them with us to where no-one can touch them.” — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
“Kummer hat etwas in den Linien deines Gesichts zu suchen, nicht in deiner Erinnerung.” — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other. — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end. — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
“...a poem is only finished when the last reader has read it or listened to it.” — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
“All right, she thought I was a funny little geezer, but my charred Phaethon had impressed her, I was very obviously available, and she… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is. — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
“Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.” — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
