Quotes by : J.M. Coetzee

I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a huge....

He is not, he hopes, a sentimentalist. He tries not to sentimentalize the animals he kills, or to sentimentalize....

Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt,....

What more is required than a kind of stupid, insensitive doggedness, as lover, as writer, together with....

What would yield the greater benefit to mankind: if I spent the afternoon taking stock in my dispensary,....

In a sudden and soundless eruption, as if he has fallen into a waking dream, a stream of images pours....

To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.

Die Wahrheit wird nicht im Zorn gesprochen. Die Wahrheit, wenn sie denn gesprochen wird, wird im Geist....

Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with....

He would not mind hearing Petrus’s story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more....