Luc De Coster
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Hans Achterhuis
“Wie droomt over geweldloosheid als een reële mogelijkheid, roept vaak het meest extreme geweld op.”
Hans Achterhuis, Met alle geweld

Julian Barnes
“There were two ways of looking at life;or two extremes of viewpoint, anyway, with a continuum between them. One proposed that every human action necessarily carried with it the obliteration of every other action which might have been performed instead; life therefore consisted of a succession of small and large choices, expressions of free will, so that the individual was like the captain of some paddle steamer chugging down the mighty Mississipi of life. The other proposed that it was all inevitability, that pre-history ruled, that a human life was no more than a bump on a log which was itself being propelled down the mighty Mississipi, tugged and bullied, smacked and weedled, by currents and eddies and hazards over which no control was possible. Paul thought it did not have to be one or the other. He thought a life – his own, of course – could be lived first under the dispensation of inevitability, and later under the dispensation of free will. But he also realized that retrospective reorderings of life are always likely to be self-serving.”
Julian Barnes, The Only Story

Laurence Sterne
“I am pursuaded of it, madam, as much as can be, That both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position.”
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Thomas More
“Heel de inrichting van de samenleving is maar op één doel gericht: alle burgers, voor zover het algemeen belang het toelaat, vrijwaren van lichamelijke arbeid om zo veel mogelijk tijd te kunnen besteden aan de vrije ontwikkeling van hun geest. Daarin ligt volgens Utopianan namelijk de sleutel tot een gelukkig leven.”
Thomas More, Utopia

Edward St. Aubyn
“Most people wait for their parents to die with a mixture of tremendous sadness and plans for a new swimming pool.”
Edward St. Aubyn

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