What did J. M. Coetzee mean by: From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth. - J. M. Coetzee Copy
+ If I, this mortal shell, am going to die, let me at least live on through my creations. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, J. M. Coetzee, Creation, Shells, 0 - J. M. Coetzee
+ Was it serious? I don’t know. It certainly had serious consequences. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, J. M. Coetzee, Consequence, Serious, 0 - J. M. Coetzee
+ Unimaginable perhaps; but the unimaginable is there to be imagined. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, J. M. Coetzee, Unimaginable, 0 - J. M. Coetzee
+ In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, J. M. Coetzee, Heart, Suffering, 0 - J. M. Coetzee
+ Pleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, J. M. Coetzee, Pain, Pleasure, These Days, 0 - J. M. Coetzee
+ I don’t think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, J. M. Coetzee, Ready, 0 - J. M. Coetzee
+ A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, J. M. Coetzee, Book, Frozen, Sea, 0 - J. M. Coetzee
+ I said to myself, ‘If you don’t sit down to it today, when will you ever sit down to it?’ Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, J. M. Coetzee, 0 - J. M. Coetzee
People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
Maybe this one moment, with this one person, is the very reason we’re here on Earth at this time. - Jean Watson Nurse
If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise. - Jeannette Walls Journalist · USA