Quotes from book
Rituals

Rituals
Cees NooteboomOriginal title Rituelen (1980)

Rituals is a 1980 novel by Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom.

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“Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.”

Cees Nooteboom book Rituals

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Rituals (1980)

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

Cees Nooteboom book Rituals

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Rituals (1980)

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“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.”

Cees Nooteboom book Rituals

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Rituals (1980)

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“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.”

Cees Nooteboom book Rituals

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Rituals (1980)

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