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J.M. Coetzee
“From the oppression of such freedom who would not welcome the liberation of confinement?”
J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians

J.M. Coetzee
“But with this woman it is as if there is no interior, only a surface across which I hunt back and forth seeking entry. Is this how her torturers felt hunting their secret, whatever they thought it was? For the first time I feel a dry pity for them: how natural a mistake to believe that you can burn or tear or hack your way into the secret body of the other! The girl lies in my bed, but there is no good reason why it should be a bed. I behave in some ways like a lover—I undress her, I bathe her, I stroke her, I sleep beside her—but I might equally well tie her to a chair and beat her, it would be no less intimate.”
J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians

J.M. Coetzee
“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

J.M. Coetzee
“All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice. "But we live in a world of laws," I said to my poor prisoner, "a world of the second best. There is nothing we can do about that. We are fallen creatures. All we can do is uphold the laws, all of us, without allowing the memory of justice to fade.”
J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians

“if you could talk about music you wouldn’t need music,”
Sinead O'Connor, Rememberings

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