"My existence from day to day has become a matter of averting my eyes, of cringing. Death is the only truth left. Death is what I cannot bear to think. At every moment when I am thinking of something else, I am not thinking death, am not thinking the truth."

-- J. M. Coetzee

#Eye Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Matter Quotes

“A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up with people who are persuaded by persons whom they do not know to enter into contracts that they do not understand to purchase goods that they do not want with money that they have not got.”
“If I had a dollar for every time I said that, I'd be making money in a very weird way.”
“Monumental is not a matter of size.”
“There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants my violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected.”
“Eve: Anyway, thanks for riding to the rescue. You need a white hat. Good guys wear white, right? Roarke: I look better in black.”
“Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.”
“Cats know, comin' out of four, they better be standin' on it, else they'll be standin' in it.”
“It's the best of the best. No film can hope to top it(Kubrick's 2001).”

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