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Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch was a Dutch writer. He wrote more than eighty novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections. Mulisch's works have been translated into over thirty languages.Along with Willem Frederik Hermans and Gerard Reve, Mulisch is considered one of the "Great Three" of Dutch postwar literature. His novel The Assault was adapted into a film that won both a Golden Globe and an Academy Award. Mulisch's work is also popular among the country's public: a 2007 poll of NRC Handelsblad readers voted his novel The Discovery of Heaven the greatest Dutch book ever written. He was regularly mentioned as a possible future Nobel laureate. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. July 1927 – 30. October 2010
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The Discovery of Heaven
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Famous Harry Mulisch Quotes

“All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them or when no one ever fell in love with them.”

Harry Mulisch book The Discovery of Heaven

Source: The Discovery of Heaven

“That question is too good to spoil with an answer.”

Harry Mulisch book The Discovery of Heaven

Source: The Discovery of Heaven

“I'm afraid love is just a word.”

Harry Mulisch

Interview about the love of his life - magazine Hollands Diep (July/August 2010)

“It was time, he thought, that tore everything to shreds.”

Harry Mulisch book The Discovery of Heaven

Source: The Discovery of Heaven (1992), Ch. 36

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