"Using someone's name during a conversation was like……" — Harry Mulisch
"Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair."
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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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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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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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More Caress Quotes
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
— Leonard Cohen
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It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to…
— Charles Ferguson
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I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh!…
— Victor Hugo
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The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts,…
— Euripides
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If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take…
— Pierre Loti
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Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw,…
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Never has good weather felt so bad. Never have flowers inspired so much fear. Never has the warm caress of…
— Joel Achenbach
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Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many…
— Pele
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Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses…
— Ruth Bernhard
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I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you…
— Gustave Flaubert
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