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“I always knew that words are suitcases with false bottoms.”
Hans Keilson, The Death of the Adversary
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“Het zou allemaal veel makkelijker zijn als ik een doel had, wat denk jij? Een vraagje: heb jij wél een doel in je leven?'
Albrecht dacht na. Had hij in deze verwarrende tijd al zijn eigen plaats gevonden, had hij, jong en gezond als hij was, een helder doel voor ogen? Nee, hij liep maar wat rond en dacht hoogstens aan de volgende dag, hoe hij geld kon verdienen en kon leven en niemand tot last was, meer niet, iets groots zag hij niet gebeuren. Hij stond hoogstens af en toe stil in zijn gejaagde leventje om even op adem te komen, dan maakte hij zich los uit zijn dagelijkse routine en was hij een paar dagen tot niets meer in staat en lag hij als een dode op bed, ongestoord. Dat duurde maar kort en dan was hij weer de oude.”
Hans Keilson, Life Goes On
“Literature is the memory of humanity. Anyone who writes remember, and anyone who reads takes part in these expriences. Books can be reprinted. The fact is, there are archival copies of books. Not of people.”
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“He had defended himself against death from without, and then it had carried him off from within.”
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“Van ver achter de heuvelrug kwam de nacht naderbij, daalde over het dal waarin de brede rivier zijn machtige loop zocht, en kroop zachtjes naar de stad.”
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“Love, beauty, dignity: all that was only put on, so that whoever approached the glowing embers in reverence would not singe his grasping hands and thirsting lips. But wherever violence and annihilation tore away the protective covering, the undaunted heart was thrown into turmoil and could not rest until new costumes had formed, new threads has been spun, to make and raise up what was shameful and venerable.”
Hans Keilson, Comedy in a Minor Key
“She had seen fear: the terrible helpless fear that rises up out of sadness and despair and is no longer attached to anything— the helpless fear that is tied only to nothingness. Not fear or anxiety or despair about a person or a situation, nothing, nothing, only the exposure, the vulnerability, being cast loose from all certainties, from all dignity and all love”
Hans Keilson, Comedy in a Minor Key
“People veil a body in fabric and clothing so that the blaze of its nakedness does not blind too deeply the eyes that see it, people veil life itself with precious garments, behind which, as under ashes, the double-tongued fire of creation smoulders.”
Hans Keilson, Comedy in a Minor Key
“I am always surprised how few grown men and women have actually really seen a dead body. That is, in normal times. A lot of people see one for the first time in their thirties. It’s strange. Everyone has a lot more to do with love, earlier and more often, of course. But they should have to see a dead body at least once a week. Then everyone would have a better sense of equilibrium, and lots of fears and anxieties would just disappear.”
Hans Keilson, Comedy in a Minor Key

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