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 psychiatrist, so as to be able to cope. But I don't think that is important enough. And then suicide is no longer a disgrace. If I had done it earlier, I would have done it in hatred, but that is no longer the case."" Hatred?"" I used to hate the world. People, smells, dogs, feet, telephones, newspapers, voices – everything filled me with the greatest disgust. I have always been afraid I might murder somebody. Suicide is when you have been all around the world with your fear and your aggression and you end up by yourself again."" It remains aggression."" Not necessarily."" What are you waiting for then?"" For the right moment. The time has not yet come." He said it amiably, as if he were talking to a child. Cees Nooteboom
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  1. Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.
  2. 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 tries to follow these ideas...
  3. 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...
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  5. 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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