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Waiting for the Barbarians QUOTES

21 " Empire as located its existence not in the smooth recurrent spinning time of the cycle of the seasons but in the jagged time of rise and fall, of beginning and end, of catastrophe. "

― J.M. Coetzee , Waiting for the Barbarians

22 " أمور مخيفة تجري في الليل، بينما أنت وأنا نائمين، الثعلب يسرق أحشاء الأرنب، ولكن العالم يستمر في الدوران "

― J.M. Coetzee , Waiting for the Barbarians

23 " أناضل أنا مع القصة القديمة، آملا أنها قبل أن تنتهي، ستكشف لي عن السبب الذي جعلني أظن أنها جديرة بالعناء "

― J.M. Coetzee , Waiting for the Barbarians

24 " أي طير يملك قلبا ليغني في أيكة من الأشواك ؟ "

― J.M. Coetzee , Waiting for the Barbarians

25 " الجريمة الكامنة في دواخلنا، يتوجب علينا إنزالها على أنفسنا، وليس على آخرين "

― J.M. Coetzee , Waiting for the Barbarians

26 " I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind? "

― J.M. Coetzee , Waiting for the Barbarians

27 " From the oppression of such freedom who would not welcome the liberation of confinement? "

― J.M. Coetzee , Waiting for the Barbarians

28 " in the night I took a lantern and went to see for myself. "

― J.M. Coetzee , Waiting for the Barbarians

29 " لقد آمنت طوال حياتي بالسلوك المتحضر، وفي هذه المناسبة، لاأستطيع أن أنكر أن الذاكرة تتركني مشمئزا من نفسي "

― J.M. Coetzee , Waiting for the Barbarians

30 " متى سأتعلم أن أمسك بلسان ماكر؟ "

― J.M. Coetzee , Waiting for the Barbarians

31 " All that I want now is to live out my life in ease in a familiar world, to die in my own bed and be followed to the grave by old friends. "

― J.M. Coetzee , Waiting for the Barbarians

32 " Like much else nowadays I leave it feeling stupid, like a man who lost his way long ago but presses on along a road that may lead nowhere. "

― J.M. Coetzee , Waiting for the Barbarians

33 " Аз самият тогава не се и съмнявах, че всеки миг всеки от нас – мъж, жена, дете, дори нещастният стар кон, който върти водното колело – знае кое е справедливо; всички същества се раждат, носейки със себе си спомена за справедливост. "

― J.M. Coetzee , Waiting for the Barbarians

34 " Лежа на голия дюшек и опитвам да си представя себе си като плувец, който плува с равномерни, енергични движения във времето – време, по-неподвижно от водата, без вълни, без мирис, просмукващо, безцветно, сухо като хартия. "

― J.M. Coetzee , Waiting for the Barbarians

35 " Pero a mis torturadores no les interesaban los distintos grados de dolor. Únicamente les interesaba demostrarme lo que significaba vivir en un cuerpo, solo como un cuerpo, un cuerpo que puede abrigar ideas de justicia solo mientras esta ileso y en buen estado, y que las olvida tan pronto le sujetan la cabeza y le meten un tubo por la garganta y echan por él litros de agua salada hasta que tose y tiene arcadas y sufre convulsiones y se vacía... Vinieron a mi celda a enseñarme el significado de la palabra 'humanidad', y me enseñaron mucho en el espacio de una hora. "

― J.M. Coetzee , Waiting for the Barbarians

36 " No one beats me, no one starves me, no one spits on me. How can I regard myself as a victim of prosecution when my sufferings are so petty? Yet they are all the more degrading for their pettiness. "

― J.M. Coetzee , Waiting for the Barbarians

37 " Vielleicht ist es so, dass nur das, was nicht ausgesprochen worden ist, durchlebt werden muss. "

― J.M. Coetzee , Waiting for the Barbarians

38 " El dolor es la verdad, todo lo demás está sujeto a duda. "

― J.M. Coetzee , Waiting for the Barbarians

39 " I am now no more than a pile of blood, bone and meat that is unhappy. "

― J.M. Coetzee , Waiting for the Barbarians

40 " A fool in love is laughed at but in the end always forgiven "

― J.M. Coetzee , Waiting for the Barbarians