“Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is.” MenWorld Author:Cees Nooteboom
“Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo Sapiens in all its varying forms, perhaps then we would understand ourselves better. The question of course is whether the other animals would approve of it.” WorldShouldFormCoursesAnimalDrawsShould HaveUltimateConclusionCagesHomo SapiensAncestryZoos Author:Cees Nooteboom
“Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus - all these jumpers without parachutes from a world of gods and heroes.” ThinkingMenWorldHas BeensMadeHeroThrownParachutesIcarusJumpers Author:Cees Nooteboom
“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
