#j.m. coetzee

[thepersonalquotes]

Well, that is what you risk when you fall in love. You risk losing your dignity.

J.M. Coetzee, Summertime

[macrolit]

I have been your lover since the day I met you and no one knows. - The Pole, J.M. Coetzee

[the-dose-makes-the-poison]

“In every story there is a silence, some sight concealed, some word unspoken, I believe. Till we have spoken the unspoken we have not come to the heart of the story.”

― J.M. Coetzee

[lascitasdelashoras]

John M. Coetzee by Wesley Merritt

[schizografia]

…the walls [...] weep without shedding a tear….

Berlinde de Bruyckere, in a letter to J. M. Coetzee

[davidhudson]

Happy 85th, J. M. Coetzee.

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Waiting for the Barbarians | Author: J.M. Coetzee | Publisher: Penguin (2017)

[litandlifequotes]

Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light.

Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee