"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."

-- George Bernard Shaw

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“If man do not find in himself the required (or wished, or wanted, - "voulue", Fr.) force to accomplish his moral aspirations, he can try to purt himself in the conditions suitable to assist (or promote, or further, -"favoriser", Fr.) his self-control.”
“What if one were up there, drifting about among suns and feeling the tails of comets fan one's forehead! How small the earth was and how puny the people; a Norway of two million provincial souls and a mortgage bank to help feed them! What was life worth at such a rate? You elbowed yourself ahead in the sweat of your face for a few mortal years, only to perish all the same, all the same!”
“Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.”
“The violence for me is never meant to be entertaining. It's meant to hurt the characters and I'm trying to show the impact it is having on the people involved with it. If there is cathartic violence at the end, then it costs the protagonist something. It's not just a blaze-of-glory moment.”
“I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist.”

Source : Cees Nooteboom (2013). “Rituals”, p.88, Hachette UK
“If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.”
“Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.”
“You are that what you cannot lose.”

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