“She had nothing to do all day ... but did it with the greatest possible speed.” LifeSpeed Author:Cees Nooteboom
“I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.” PeopleLifeCowardConformist Book:Rituals Source: Rituals
“I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me.” WorldLifeHindrance Author:Cees Nooteboom
“As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.” WorldLifeEndsMovingFashionPermanentLogicalCapitalistOrderlyMoving In Author:Cees Nooteboom
“He regarded life as a rather odd club of which he had accidentally become a member and from which one could be expelled without reasons having to be supplied. He had already decided to leave the club if the meetings should become all too boring. But how boring is boring?” IfsLifeShouldReasonMembersDecidedMeetingsClubsBoringOddBoring Life Author:Cees Nooteboom