Quotes from Coetze, J.M.

There seemed nothing to do but live.

The body, I had been taught, wants only to live. Suicide, I had understood, is an act not of the body against itself but of the will against the body. Yet here I beheld a body that was going to die rather than change its nature.

He believed that our life-stories are ours to construct as we wish,within or even against the constraints posed by the real world...

Segun la visión ortodoxa neoliberal, el socialismo se derrumbó y murió bajo sus propias contradicciones. Pero... no podriamos imaginar una posibilidad alternativa, la de que el socialismo no se derrumbó sino que fue derribado al suelo a porrazos, y que no murió sino que lo asesinaron?

Is that the moral of it all, he thought? the moral of the whole story: that there is time enough for everything? Is that how morals come, unbidden, in the course of events, when you least expect them?

There's nothing special about you,' said the man. 'There's nothing special about any of us.' His gesture embraced them all: prisoners, guards, foremen.