Miracles Quote by J. M. Coetzee

““We are the great miracle of creation! But from some blows this miraculous body cannot repair itself!””

J. M. Coetzee

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“For I am no orator. What would I have said if they had let me go on? That it is worse to beat a…

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To me, a philosopher who says that the distinction between human and nonhuman depends on whether you have a white or a black skin,…

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The spark of true poetry flashes when ideas are juxtaposed that no one has yet thought of bringing together.

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“But with this woman it is as if there is no interior, only a surface across which I hunt back and forth seeking entry. Is this how her torturers felt hunting their secret, whatever they thought it was? For the first time I feel a dry pity for them: how natural a mistake to believe that you can burn or…

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You think you know what is just and what is not. I understand. We all think we know." I had no doubt, myself, then, that at each moment each one of us, man, woman, child, perhaps even the poor old horse turning the mill-wheel, knew what was just: all creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of…

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The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before, that is,…

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I am corrupted to the bone with the beauty of this forsaken world.

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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to…

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Denunciations of the manipulativeness of advertisers can unfortunately all too easily be turned on their heads into denunciations of the gullibility of consumers. Both…

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Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence. Yet why…

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What is miraculous about the past is that we have succeeded--God knows how--in making thousands and millions of individual human beings, lock well enought into one another to give us what looks like a common past, a shared story.

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...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to find your way out of a sterile maze, ignoring the fact that if the researcher who designed the maze were to be parachuted into the jungles of Borneo, he or she would be dead of starvation in a…

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The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel.

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This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the rock, the moss. In autumn, it would be right; in winter under the snow, it would be perfect in its wintriness. Spring would come again and miracle within miracle would unfold, each at its special pace,…

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“Symbols are miracles we have recorded into language.”

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Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches talk about having evidence of Divine authority because they have miracles. Miracles in our time are like candles in the street at midday. We do not want miracles. They are to teach men how to find…

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