"All cows were like other cows, all tigers……" — Harry Mulisch
"All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?"
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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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A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it…
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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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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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