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Harry Mulisch has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?
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A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to…
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Besides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that's hard to…
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In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A…
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I'm afraid love is just a word.
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But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute.
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Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.
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If you find life absurd, shouldn’t you find death precisely meaningful?
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All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them or when…
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Perhaps, he thought, true pure love, like all flowers, flourished best with its roots in muck and mud. Perhaps that was a…
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I never understood how anyone could feel small compared with the universe. After all, man knows how overwhelmingly large it is, and…
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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and…
— Benjamin Britten
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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
— Charlotte Bronte
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There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
— Coco Chanel
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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless.…
— Oscar Wilde
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I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.
— Therese of Lisieux
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If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.
— Vance Packard
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The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
— Sean O'Casey
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And it is true that life lacks the monotony of museums. There come days which seem worthy of being framed, but they…
— Italo Svevo
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Were you to realize the forms minute and glorious, which invisibly play their parts in service around you, there could be no…
— Flower A. Newhouse
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Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security,…
— Paul Theroux
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