"I find it unbearable to need a body…" — Cees Nooteboom

"I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist."

— Cees Nooteboom

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13 Quotes by Cees Nooteboom

Cees Nooteboom has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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