"We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable."

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Source : J. M. Coetzee (2017). “Foe: A Novel”, p.98, Penguin

J. M. Coetzee

#Ignorance Quotes #Certain Quotes #Blindness Quotes

“All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.”
“Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies”
“Encouragement is like oxygen to the human spirit. Don't forget you're carrying someone else's air. Encourage them; help them breathe.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 18, 2012
“War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist”
“Happy girls are always the prettiest”
“Other people have all kinds of information about you that is invisible to you. How do you get feedback?”
“Its very hard trying to talk to an actor about how they should deliver lines, or cut their hair, unless it comes from a place of a strong point of view.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.”

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