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.
But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute. - Harry Mulisch
But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute.
- Harry Mulisch
Perhaps, he thought, true pure love, like all flowers, flourished best with its roots in muck and mud. Perhaps that was a law of life that held every… - Harry Mulisch
Perhaps, he thought, true pure love, like all flowers, flourished best with its roots in muck and mud. Perhaps that was a law of life that held every…
In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A mother with… - Harry Mulisch
In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A mother with…
I'm afraid love is just a word. - Harry Mulisch
I'm afraid love is just a word.
All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings? - Harry Mulisch
All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?
I never understood how anyone could feel small compared with the universe. After all, man knows how overwhelmingly large it is, and a few others thin… - Harry Mulisch
I never understood how anyone could feel small compared with the universe. After all, man knows how overwhelmingly large it is, and a few others thin…
A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat. - 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.
That question is too good to spoil with an answer. - Harry Mulisch
That question is too good to spoil with an answer.
Besides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that's hard to imagine. For the image implies that… - Harry Mulisch
Besides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that's hard to imagine. For the image implies that…
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