"As far as he could see, the world……" — 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."
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13 Quotes by Cees Nooteboom
Cees Nooteboom has 13 quotes on this site.
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Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.
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Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage…
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Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.
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So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words,…
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The world is a never-ending cross-reference.
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Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers,…
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Man is a sad mammal that combs its hair.
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I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist.
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She had nothing to do all day ... but did it with the greatest possible speed.
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I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.
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I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me.
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He regarded life as a rather odd club of which he had accidentally become a member and from which one…
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