#jm coetzee

[rini-descartes]

"Perhaps it does us good to have a fall every now and then. As long as we don’t break."

—J.M Coetzee, Boyhood

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee (1980)?

yes

no

I didn't finish it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onMay 16

[brideofquietness]

"To each of us, fate sends the right disease."    — J. M. Coetzee, Age of Iron

[amor-barato]

Pode existir uma laje bem assentada cujo bom assentamento é evidente para todo mundo. As lajes que está assentando durarão mais até que sua estada na terra; e nesse caso ele terá, em certo sentido, enganado a morte. Uma pessoa pode passar o resto da vida cimentando lajes e todo noite cair no mais profundo sono, cansada com a dor do esforço honesto.

J. M. Coetzee, Verão 

[thewizardofhoes-speaking]

What they have undergone in these five days I do not know. Now herded by their guard they stand in a hopeless little knot in the corner of the yard, nomads and fisherfolk together, sick, famished, damaged, terrified. It would be best if this obscure chapter in history of the world were terminated at once, if these ugly people were obliterated from the face of the earth and we swore to make a new start, to run an empire in which there would be no more injustice, no more pain. It would cost little to march them out in the desert (having put a meal in them first, perhaps, to make the march possible), to have them dig, with their last strength, a pit large enough for all of them to lie in (or even to dig it for them!), and, leaving them buried there forever and forever, to come back to the walled town full of new intentions, new resolutions. But that will not be my way.

J. M. Coetzee - excepts from "Waiting for the barbarians"

[litandlifequotes]

Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.

Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee

[harrypotterhousequotes]

GRYFFINDOR: "But truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love." –J.M. Coetzee (Slow Man)

[pseudosaladwithintellectualflaw]

Youth- J.M. Coetzee.