What did J. M. Coetzee mean by: The devil is everywhere under the skin of things, searching for a way into the light. - J. M. Coetzee Copy
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, J. M. Coetzee, Earth, 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
+ Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, J. M. Coetzee, Coins, Desire, Language, 0 - J. M. Coetzee
The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
You can’t make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it. - Frank Lloyd Wright Architect · USA
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate. - Jean Vanier Philosopher and theologian
Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature? - Jean-Dominique Bauby Journalist · France
