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Cornelis « Cees » Johannes Jacobus Maria Nooteboom, né le 31 juillet 1933 à La Haye, est un écrivain néerlandais. Auteur d’une œuvre inclassable qui va du roman philosophique à l’essai journalistique en passant par des chroniques de voyages et des poèmes, il est une personnalité majeure de la littérature néerlandaise depuis 1950. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. juillet 1933
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Cees Nooteboom: 13 citations0 J'aime

Cees Nooteboom: Citations en anglais

“Every period in history has it's own punishments, and ours has a multitude.”

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Cees Nooteboom livre The Following Story

The Following Story (1991)

“I had breezed home on the wings of five gins.”

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Cees Nooteboom livre The Following Story

The Following Story (1991)

“It would be like this when you were really old-a city full of imaginary houses and women, rooms and girls.”

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Cees Nooteboom livre Rituals

Page 125
Rituals (1980)

“The world is a never-ending cross-reference.”

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Cees Nooteboom livre The Following Story

The Following Story (1991)

“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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Cees Nooteboom livre The Following Story

The Following Story (1991)

“My tears are only triggered by kitsch.”

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Cees Nooteboom livre The Following Story

The Following Story (1991)

“It is a peculiarity of time that in retrospect it appears so compact, an indivisible solid object, a dish with only one smell and one flavor.”

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Cees Nooteboom livre Rituals

Page 4
Rituals (1980)

“From the number of self-murderers he had known-you had to put it that way, for the fact that someone died rounded off your knowledge of that person, if only because he or she could no longer present you with surprises-he was able to conclude that his circle of acquaintance must consist of a thousand people. If he were to invite all these voluntary dead to tea, two boxes of cream cakes from Berkhof's would scarcely suffice.”

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Cees Nooteboom livre Rituals

Page 20
Rituals (1980)

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

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Cees Nooteboom livre The Following Story

The Following Story (1991)

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

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Cees Nooteboom livre The Following Story

The Following Story (1991)

“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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Cees Nooteboom livre The Following Story

The Following Story (1991)

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