Quote by Harry Mulisch

“Un comienzo no desaparece nunca, ni siquiera con un final.”

— Harry Mulisch

“Still, national politics meant little to him: about as much as paper airplanes would mean to the survivor of a plane crash.”

— Harry Mulisch

“People returning from a journey carry the distances they have traveled with them like outspread wings - until they put the key in their…

— Harry Mulisch

“He understood very well that it was just because of this intimacy that their marriage had not survived.”

— Harry Mulisch

“Iemand die van iemand anders houdt, zegt altijd dat dat komt doordat die ander zo mooi is, op een of andere manier, van buiten…

— Harry Mulisch

“You could chat with anyone; being silent together without it becoming embarrassing was a lot rarer.”

— Harry Mulisch

“The oldest thing of all is the present, because there's never been anything else but present. No one has ever lived in the past,…

— Harry Mulisch

“Hate is the darkness, that's no good. And yet we've got to hate Fascists, and that's considered perfectly all right. How is that possible?…

— Harry Mulisch

That question is too good to spoil with an answer.

— Harry Mulisch

“When we heard those shots and he saw Ploeg lying in front of the house, what he said was, 'My God, the lizards!'" With…

— Harry Mulisch

Perhaps, he thought, true pure love, like all flowers, flourished best with its roots in muck and mud. Perhaps that was a law of…

— Harry Mulisch

“His father in law, who was as old as the century, had just retired and was living in a country house in Gelderland. He…

— Harry Mulisch