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“When all else fails, philosophize.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

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“I urge you: don't cut short these thought-trains of yours. Follow them through to their end. Your thoughts and your feelings. Follow them through and you will grow with them.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Slow Man

tags: feelings, growth, thoughts

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“There’s always a return to the ruins, only to the womb there is no return. [191]”
― Sol T. Plaatje, Mhudi

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“Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians

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“He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa. Stretches of English code whole sentences long have thickened, lost their articulations, their articulateness, their articulatedness. Like a dinosaur expiring and settling in the mud, the language has stiffened. Pressed into the mold of English, Petrus's story would come out arthritic, bygone"(117).”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

tags: african-story-telling, disgrace, j-m-coetzee

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