Quotes by Cees Nooteboom

About Cees Nooteboom:

Cees Nooteboom is a Dutch novelist, poet, and journalist. He has won numerous literary awards and has been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature.
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<< Los sonidos van y vienen, pero el silencio permanece.>> En cierta ocasión, ta vez cuarenta años atrás, en un hotel mugriento y anónimo al borde del Sahara en la frontera de Mauritania, me depertó el silencio al que se refería el anciano. Per...

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When Sartre says man has been thrown into the world, he is alone, there is no God, we are responsible for what we are, what we do, I say yes!" The affirmative echoed around the woods. The dog pricked up his ears. This man has no one to talk to, thoug...

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Can you imagine how incredibly quiet it was everywhere, when the gentlemen from this world" — he made a vague circular gesture towards the battalions of meditating Asians behind him — "were hatching and proclaiming their ideas? Anyone who now tri...

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I could have forced myself to adapt," said Taads. "In this world the individual self is of such importance that it is allowed to become absorbed in itself and to grub around in its trivial personal history for years on end with the help of a psychiat...

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He thought that, unlike most people, he had simply refused to let himself be brainwashed by newspapers, television, eschatologies, and philosophies into believing that "in spite of everything" this was an acceptable world simply because it existed. I...

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We are our secrets, and, if all goes well, we will take them with us to where no-one can touch them.

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When a memory fails to appear, it seems as though the time when it was created did not really exist, and maybe that is true. Time itself is nothing; only the experience of it is something. When that dies, it assumes the form of a denial, the symbol o...

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Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.

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Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

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Author Bio

  • NameCees Nooteboom
  • DescriptionDutch writer
  • BornJuly 31, 1933
  • CountryNetherlands
  • ProfessionPoet; Writer; Novelist
  • AwardsP. C. Hooft Award; Constantijn Huygens Prize; Austrian State Prize For European Literature; Grand Merit Cross Of The Order Of Merit Of The Federal Republic Of Germany; Jan Campert Prize; Charlemagne Medal For European Media; Multatuli Award; Prijs Der Nederlandse Letteren; Herman Gorterprijs; Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize; Cestoda Price