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Cees Nooteboom
12 quotes
“Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases. (Page 1)”
Cees Nooteboom (1933–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is a peculiarity of time that in retrospect it appears so compact, an indivisible solid object, a dish with only one smell and one flavor. (Page 4)”
Cees Nooteboom (1933–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From the number of self-murderers he had known-you had to put it that way, for the fact that someone died rounded off your knowledge of that person, if only because he or she could no longer present you with surprises-he was able to conclude that his circle of acquaintance must consist of a thousand people. If he were to invite all these voluntary dead to tea, two boxes of cream cakes from Berkhof's would scarcely suffice. (Page 20)”
Cees Nooteboom (1933–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It would be like this when you were really old-a city full of imaginary houses and women, rooms and girls. (Page 125)”
Cees Nooteboom (1933–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had breezed home on the wings of five gins.”
Cees Nooteboom (1933–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My tears are only triggered by kitsch.”
Cees Nooteboom (1933–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We will feel the draft blowing through the cracks in the structure of causality.”
Cees Nooteboom (1933–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That is the difference between gods and men. Gods can change themselves; humans can only be changed.”
Cees Nooteboom (1933–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Besides, I simply had to get back to my books right away, because the company of most people, once the predictable events have taken their course, does not inspire conversation on my part.”
Cees Nooteboom (1933–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For the sake of having her with me I had to tolerate the shadow of a tracksuited poet, but one who has taken the guise of a man in love will indiscriminately eat and drink platefuls of thistles, barrels of vinegar.”
Cees Nooteboom (1933–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every period in history has its own punishments, and ours has a multitude.”
Cees Nooteboom (1933–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world is a never-ending cross-reference.”
Cees Nooteboom (1933–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source