J. M. Coetzee
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“There is a pause between them.
'How humiliating,' he says finally. 'Such high hopes, and to end
like this.'
'Yes, I agree, it is humiliating. But perhaps that is a good point
to start from again. Perhaps that is what I must learn to accept. To
start at ground level. With nothing. Not with nothing but. With
nothing. No cards, no weapons, no property, no rights, no
dignity.'
'Like a dog.'
'Yes, like a dog.”
―
'How humiliating,' he says finally. 'Such high hopes, and to end
like this.'
'Yes, I agree, it is humiliating. But perhaps that is a good point
to start from again. Perhaps that is what I must learn to accept. To
start at ground level. With nothing. Not with nothing but. With
nothing. No cards, no weapons, no property, no rights, no
dignity.'
'Like a dog.'
'Yes, like a dog.”
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