Harry Mulisch Quotes

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• If written in the three-letter words of the four-letter alphabet,a human being is determined by a genetic narrative long enough to fill the equivalent of…
• All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?
• A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.
• Besides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that's hard to imagine. For the…
• In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A mother with a…
• I'm afraid love is just a word.
• But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute.
• Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.
• If you find life absurd, shouldn’t you find death precisely meaningful?
• All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them or when no one ever…
• Perhaps, he thought, true pure love, like all flowers, flourished best with its roots in muck and mud. Perhaps that was a law of life…
• I never understood how anyone could feel small compared with the universe. After all, man knows how overwhelmingly large it is, and a few others…
• That question is too good to spoil with an answer.

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