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Inspirational Quotes by J M Coetzee
- I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.
- The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more…
- I said to myself, 'If you don't sit down to it today, when will you ever sit down to it?'
- From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth.
- We are not by nature cruel.
- In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
- I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
- I am not the we of anyone
- Unimaginable perhaps; but the unimaginable is there to be imagined.
- Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.
- When all else fails, philosophize.
- Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.
- We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
- And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant
- Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths
- There seemed nothing to do but live.
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