Humans Quote by Harry Mulisch

“All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them or when no one ever fell in love with them.”

Harry Mulisch

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“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,…

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“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?…

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That question is too good to spoil with an answer.

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

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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 law of…

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

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