My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.
I am not the we of anyone - J. M. Coetzee
I am not the we of anyone
- J. M. Coetzee
(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution. - J. M. Coetzee
(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.
Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the b… - J. M. Coetzee
Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the b…
Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths - J. M. Coetzee
Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths
A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us. - J. M. Coetzee
A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.
When all else fails, philosophize. - J. M. Coetzee
When all else fails, philosophize.
Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of, i… - J. M. Coetzee
Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of, i…
There seemed nothing to do but live. - J. M. Coetzee
There seemed nothing to do but live.
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable. - J. M. Coetzee
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
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