Author of quotes: John (Joseph) Maxwell Coetzee

Show a little you in any way, otherwise you go through life, unnoticed.

I'm a black widow in mourning for my life. All my life I was left to lie forgotten, dusty, like an old Shoe, or used as a weapon to bring the house in order and control over the servants. But I see the point of its existence quite differently, he hesitantly flickers somewhere in my inner darkness: I - case, an empty shell for the interior space.

Only suppressing his secrets, we'll keep them.

I once lived in time like fish in water, breathing them, drinking it, and it supported me. Now I'm killing time while time kills me.

- One more word, the last. I believe that it all could have turned out differently, despite the age difference. But there was something that I was not able to give her something - he gropes for a word, lyrical. I lacked the lyricism. I'm too good with love. Even burning, I don't sing, you know what I mean? And I apologize for that.

It is the consciousness of a slave is the confidence of a master in his own truth.

Slave loses everything in their chains, even the desire to get rid of them.

When we are immersed in a dream, Kafka's awake and fills observations with time gaps.

In fact, what is the future? Only an artificial construction of hopes and expectations. It exists only in our imagination, it is reality.

- Eat meat and wear leather shoes definitely different things.
- It's just a different degree of cynicism - and that's all.

Stupid losers, sitting on back school desks, grew up, and now they are entrusted to govern.

I'm beginning to understand the true meaning of arms. We embrace, to hug us.

How easy it is to love a child and how difficult it is to whom he eventually turns.

When will the madness sits on the throne, which subject will escape the contagion?