I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.
J.M. CoetzeeThere is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgment on reason.
J.M. CoetzeeTags: reason philosophy
El espacio es sólo espacio, la vida sólo es vida, igual en todas partes.
J.M. CoetzeeIt would be best if this obscure chapter in the history of the world were terminated at once, if these ugly people were obliterated from the face of the earth and we swore to make a new start, to run an empire in which there would be no more injustice, no more pain.
J.M. CoetzeeI have lived through an eventful year, yet understand no more of it than a babe in arms. Of all the people of this town I am the one least fitted to write a memorial. Better the blacksmith with his cries of rage and woe.
J.M. CoetzeeTags: justice
Yet is it not the heart but the members of play that elevate us above the beasts: the fingers with which we touch the clavichord or the flute, the tongue with which we jest and lie and seduce. Lacking members of play, what is there left for beasts to do when they are bored but sleep?
J.M. CoetzeeAn aversion came over me that we feel for all the mutilated. Why is that so, do you think? Because they put us in mind of what we would rather forget: how easily, at the stroke of a sword or a knife, wholeness and beauty are forever undone? Perhaps. But toward you I felt a deeper revulsion. I could not put out of mind the softness of the tongue, its softness and wetness, and the fact that it does not live in the light; also how helpless it is before the knife, once the barrier of teeth has been passed. The tongue is like the heart, in that way, is it not?
J.M. CoetzeeThe body, I had been taught, wants only to live. Suicide, I had understood, is an act not of the body against itself but of the will against the body. Yet here I beheld a body that was going to die rather than change its nature.
J.M. CoetzeeTags: suicide life-and-times-of-michael-k
There seemed nothing to do but live.
J.M. CoetzeeTags: live-in-the-moment
There's nothing special about you,' said the man. 'There's nothing special about any of us.' His gesture embraced them all: prisoners, guards, foremen.
J.M. CoetzeeTags: life-and-times-of-michael-k
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