Quotes by : Cees Nooteboom

Can you imagine how incredibly quiet it was everywhere, when the gentlemen from this world" — he made....

We are our secrets, and, if all goes well, we will take them with us to where no-one can touch them.

Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.....

When Sartre says man has been thrown into the world, he is alone, there is no God, we are responsible....

When a memory fails to appear, it seems as though the time when it was created did not really exist,....

I could have forced myself to adapt," said Taads. "In this world the individual self is of such importance....