"All human beings were of course unique, and……" — 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."
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13 Quotes by Harry Mulisch
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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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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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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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