Book cover: The Following Story

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Book cover

The Following Story

Cees Nooteboom

Quotes

  1. The world is a never-ending cross-reference.

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  2. For the sake of having her with me I had to tolerate the shadow of a tracksuited poet, but one who has taken the guise of a man in love will indiscriminately eat and drink platefuls of thistles, barrels of vinegar.

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  3. My tears are only triggered by kitsch.

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  4. That is the difference between gods and men. Gods can change themselves; humans can only be changed.

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  5. We will feel the draft blowing through the cracks in the structure of causality.

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  6. Besides, I simply had to get back to my books right away, because the company of most people, once the predictable events have taken their course, does not inspire conversation on my part.

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  7. Every period in history has its own punishments, and ours has a multitude.

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  8. I had breezed home on the wings of five gins.

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