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Top 15 Cees Nooteboom Quotes (2025 Update)

Cees Nooteboom Quote: “Herinnering is als een hond die gaat liggen waar hij wil.”

1. “Herinnering is als een hond die gaat liggen waar hij wil.”

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Cees Nooteboom Quote: “I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.”

2. “I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.”

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Cees Nooteboom Quote: “Ik zal afscheid nemen van mijn vrienden en weggaan zonder weg te gaan vanwege de herinneringen die ik meeneem en achterlaat en als ik terugkom zal alles anders zijn en toch hetzelfde en voorgoed veranderd.”

3. “Ik zal afscheid nemen van mijn vrienden en weggaan zonder weg te gaan vanwege de herinneringen die ik meeneem en achterlaat en als ik terugkom zal alles anders zijn en toch hetzelfde en voorgoed veranderd.”

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Cees Nooteboom Quote: “Man is a sad mammal that combs its hair.”

4. “Man is a sad mammal that combs its hair.”

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Cees Nooteboom Quote: “The world is a never-ending cross-reference.”

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

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Cees Nooteboom Quote: “Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.”

6. “Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.”

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Cees Nooteboom Quote: “Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus – all these jumpers without parachutes from a world of gods and heroes.”

7. “Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus – all these jumpers without parachutes from a world of gods and heroes.”

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Cees Nooteboom Quote: “Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.”

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

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Cees Nooteboom Quote: “I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me.”

9. “I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me.”

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Cees Nooteboom Quote: “Language is something you inherit, it’s never just you doing the talking, which helps when you’re pretending.”

10. “Language is something you inherit, it’s never just you doing the talking, which helps when you’re pretending.”

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Cees Nooteboom Quote: “He regarded life as a rather odd club of which he had accidentally become a member and from which one could be expelled without reasons having to be supplied. He had already decided to leave the club if the meetings should become all too boring. But how boring is boring?”

11. “He regarded life as a rather odd club of which he had accidentally become a member and from which one could be expelled without reasons having to be supplied. He had already decided to leave the club if the meetings should become all too boring. But how boring is boring?”

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Cees Nooteboom Quote: “Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo Sapiens in all its varying forms, perhaps then we would understand ourselves better. The question of course is whether the other animals would approve of it.”

12. “Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo Sapiens in all its varying forms, perhaps then we would understand ourselves better. The question of course is whether the other animals would approve of it.”

— Cees Nooteboom

Cees Nooteboom Quote: “Wij zijn begonnen, wij zullen eindigen, en daartussen bestaan we, het heelal net zo goed als een geranium.”

13. “Wij zijn begonnen, wij zullen eindigen, en daartussen bestaan we, het heelal net zo goed als een geranium.”

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Cees Nooteboom Quote: “He thought that, unlike most people, he had simply refused to let himself be brainwashed by newspapers, television, eschatologies, and philosophies into believing that “in spite of everything” this was an acceptable world simply because it existed. It would never become acceptable. Beloved maybe, acceptable never.”

14. “He thought that, unlike most people, he had simply refused to let himself be brainwashed by newspapers, television, eschatologies, and philosophies into believing that “in spite of everything” this was an acceptable world simply because it existed. It would never become acceptable. Beloved maybe, acceptable never.”

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Cees Nooteboom Quote: “Is that part of being a god, manifesting yourselves exclusively in forms of fiction, and making yourselves scarce when it matters?”

15. “Is that part of being a god, manifesting yourselves exclusively in forms of fiction, and making yourselves scarce when it matters?”

— Cees Nooteboom

Cees Nooteboom Quote: “I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist.”

16. “I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist.”

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Cees Nooteboom Quote: “As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.”

17. “As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.”

— Cees Nooteboom

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