J. M. Coetzee quotes - page 4

I am looking for such a place in order to settle there, perhaps only till things improve, perhaps forever. I am not so foolish, however, as to imagine that I can rely on maps and roads to guide me. (J. M. Coetzee)
Perhaps if one flew high enough, he thought, one would be able to see. View quote
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The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do. View quote
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Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. View quote
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I could live here forever, he thought, or till I die. Nothing would happen, every day would be the same as the day before, there would be nothing to say. The anxiety that belonged to the time on the road began to leave him. Sometimes, as he walked, he did not know whether he was awake or asleep. He could understand that people should have retreated here and fenced themselves in with miles and miles of silence; he could understand that they should have wanted to bequeath the privilege of so much silence to their children and grandchildren in perpetuity (though by what right he was not sure); he wondered whether there were not forgotten corners and angles and corridors between the fences, land that belonged to no one yet. Perhaps if one flew high enough, he thought, one would be able to see. View quote
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