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> [“I looked out of the window and saw him sitting in the early rays of the sun, a dark silhouette in the sand, motionless as a rock, and knew at once that I had substituted one memory for another and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cees-nooteboom/i-looked-out-of-the-window-and-saw-him-sitting-in-the-early-rays-of/)

[Cees Nooteboom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cees-nooteboom/)

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## More by Cees Nooteboom

> [Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cees-nooteboom/man-has-been-thrown-into-the-world-it-had-always-made-him-think-of/)

[Cees Nooteboom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cees-nooteboom/)

> [“We are our secrets, and, if all goes well, we will take them with us to where no-one can touch them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cees-nooteboom/we-are-our-secrets-and-if-all-goes-well-we-will-take-them-with-us-to/)

[Cees Nooteboom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cees-nooteboom/)

> [“Kummer hat etwas in den Linien deines Gesichts zu suchen, nicht in deiner Erinnerung.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cees-nooteboom/kummer-hat-etwas-in-den-linien-deines-gesichts-zu-suchen-nicht-in/)

[Cees Nooteboom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cees-nooteboom/)

> [I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cees-nooteboom/i-have-never-cared-much-for-people-most-of-them-are-cowards/)

[Cees Nooteboom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cees-nooteboom/)

> [As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cees-nooteboom/as-far-as-he-could-see-the-world-was-moving-in-an-orderly-capitalist/)

[Cees Nooteboom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cees-nooteboom/)

> [The world is a never-ending cross-reference.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cees-nooteboom/the-world-is-a-never-ending-cross-reference/)

[Cees Nooteboom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cees-nooteboom/)

> [“...a poem is only finished when the last reader has read it or listened to it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cees-nooteboom/a-poem-is-only-finished-when-the-last-reader-has-read-it-or-listened/)

[Cees Nooteboom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cees-nooteboom/)

> [“All right, she thought I was a funny little geezer, but my charred Phaethon had impressed her, I was very obviously available, and she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cees-nooteboom/all-right-she-thought-i-was-a-funny-little-geezer-but-my-charred/)

[Cees Nooteboom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cees-nooteboom/)

> [Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cees-nooteboom/through-men-you-learn-how-the-world-is-through-women-you-learn-what/)

[Cees Nooteboom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cees-nooteboom/)

> [“Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cees-nooteboom/conversations-consist-for-the-most-part-of-things-one-does-not-say/)

[Cees Nooteboom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cees-nooteboom/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cees-nooteboom/so-called-real-life-has-only-once-interfered-with-me-and-it-had-been/)

[Cees Nooteboom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cees-nooteboom/)

> [I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cees-nooteboom/i-am-a-hindrance-to-the-world-and-the-world-is-a-hindrance-to-me/)

[Cees Nooteboom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cees-nooteboom/)

> [Man is a sad mammal that combs its hair.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cees-nooteboom/man-is-a-sad-mammal-that-combs-its-hair/)

[Cees Nooteboom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cees-nooteboom/)

> [Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cees-nooteboom/language-is-something-you-inherit-it-s-never-just-you-doing-the/)

[Cees Nooteboom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cees-nooteboom/)

> [“Omnivore, omnifume, omniboit, omnivoit. Ne znaš odabrati, to je uvijek nedostatak izvrsnosti. Zato si ti svaštar. To je netko kome je sve lijepo. Život…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cees-nooteboom/omnivore-omnifume-omniboit-omnivoit-ne-zna-odabrati-to-je-uvijek/)

[Cees Nooteboom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cees-nooteboom/)

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