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Ends Quotes by J M Coetzee
- They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends? Therefore we are free to kill them?…
- Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of,…
- His mouth opens. From inside him comes a slow stream, without breath, without interruption. It flows up through his body and out upon me; it…
- But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out…
- One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era. By day it…
- But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on…
- But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does…
- You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.” “I’m going to end up in…
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