"A man who has never been hungry may……" — Harry Mulisch
"A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat."
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Harry Mulisch
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13 Quotes by Harry Mulisch
Harry Mulisch has 13 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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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Besides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that's…
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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…
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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…
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Perhaps, he thought, true pure love, like all flowers, flourished best with its roots in muck and mud. Perhaps that…
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I never understood how anyone could feel small compared with the universe. After all, man knows how overwhelmingly large it…
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That question is too good to spoil with an answer.
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