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Top 25 Damon Galgut Quotes (2025 Update)

Damon Galgut Quote: “Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory.”

1. “Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory.”

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Damon Galgut Quote: “Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit.”

2. “Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit.”

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Damon Galgut Quote: “If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn’t do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.”

3. “If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn’t do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.”

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Damon Galgut Quote: “A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it’s made. You go from one place to another place, and on to somewhere else again, and already behind you there is no trace that you were ever there.”

4. “A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it’s made. You go from one place to another place, and on to somewhere else again, and already behind you there is no trace that you were ever there.”

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Damon Galgut Quote: “The only way you can be universal is to be sure you are very specifically local.”

5. “The only way you can be universal is to be sure you are very specifically local.”

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Damon Galgut Quote: “In his clearest moments he thinks he has lost the ability to love, people or places or things, most of all the person and place and thing that he is. Without love nothing has value, nothing can be made to matter very much.”

6. “In his clearest moments he thinks he has lost the ability to love, people or places or things, most of all the person and place and thing that he is. Without love nothing has value, nothing can be made to matter very much.”

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Damon Galgut Quote: “There’s no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you’ve built, everything you’ve counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you.”

7. “There’s no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you’ve built, everything you’ve counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you.”

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Damon Galgut Quote: “No emotion was supposed to cross the great divide of class. Affection could erase all hierarchy; in this was the danger, and the delight.”

8. “No emotion was supposed to cross the great divide of class. Affection could erase all hierarchy; in this was the danger, and the delight.”

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Damon Galgut Quote: “That echo. It played in his head at unexpected moments, repeating certain sounds and making nonsense of them. But could you remember an echo? Memory itself was like another kind of echo, everything duplicating endlessly, in shadow versions of itself.”

9. “That echo. It played in his head at unexpected moments, repeating certain sounds and making nonsense of them. But could you remember an echo? Memory itself was like another kind of echo, everything duplicating endlessly, in shadow versions of itself.”

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Damon Galgut Quote: “What happens in a room lingers there invisibly, all deeds, all words, always. Not seen, not heard, except by some, and even then imperfectly. In this very room both birth and death have taken place. Long ago, maybe, but the blood is still visible on certain days, when time wears thin.”

10. “What happens in a room lingers there invisibly, all deeds, all words, always. Not seen, not heard, except by some, and even then imperfectly. In this very room both birth and death have taken place. Long ago, maybe, but the blood is still visible on certain days, when time wears thin.”

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Damon Galgut Quote: “The only defence against raw, naked feeling was reason. Understanding made sadness easier to bear.”

11. “The only defence against raw, naked feeling was reason. Understanding made sadness easier to bear.”

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Damon Galgut Quote: “Something in him has changed, he can’t seem to connect properly with the world. He feels this not as a failure of the world but as a massive failing in himself, he would like to change it but doesn’t know how. In his clearest moments he thinks that he has lost the ability to love, people or places or things, most of all the person and place and thing that he is. Without love nothing has value, nothing can be made to matter very much.”

12. “Something in him has changed, he can’t seem to connect properly with the world. He feels this not as a failure of the world but as a massive failing in himself, he would like to change it but doesn’t know how. In his clearest moments he thinks that he has lost the ability to love, people or places or things, most of all the person and place and thing that he is. Without love nothing has value, nothing can be made to matter very much.”

— Damon Galgut

Damon Galgut Quote: “There were some, naturally, who would understand, and he wrote for them, or for himself. Anyhow, some idealised reader who would accept everything, and forgive.”

13. “There were some, naturally, who would understand, and he wrote for them, or for himself. Anyhow, some idealised reader who would accept everything, and forgive.”

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Damon Galgut Quote: “What he sensed more than anything else was kindness – a kindness of a human and immediate sort. It was surprising how very radical this simple emotion could be.”

14. “What he sensed more than anything else was kindness – a kindness of a human and immediate sort. It was surprising how very radical this simple emotion could be.”

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Damon Galgut Quote: “Apartheid has fallen, see, we die right next to each other now, in intimate proximity. It’s just the living part we still have to work out.”

15. “Apartheid has fallen, see, we die right next to each other now, in intimate proximity. It’s just the living part we still have to work out.”

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Damon Galgut Quote: “You understand, he says, people don’t always take what you give to them. Not every chance is an opportunity. Sometimes a chance is just a waste of time.”

16. “You understand, he says, people don’t always take what you give to them. Not every chance is an opportunity. Sometimes a chance is just a waste of time.”

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Damon Galgut Quote: “Odd how certain people, often random individuals, can pulse with significance in your thoughts, your dreams.”

17. “Odd how certain people, often random individuals, can pulse with significance in your thoughts, your dreams.”

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Damon Galgut Quote: “His footsteps sound hesitant, but he doesn’t turn back. Nor will the moment return, which is true of all moments, though not equally.”

18. “His footsteps sound hesitant, but he doesn’t turn back. Nor will the moment return, which is true of all moments, though not equally.”

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Damon Galgut Quote: “To be honest and to be fair were not always the same thing.”

19. “To be honest and to be fair were not always the same thing.”

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Damon Galgut Quote: “Oh, i can deal with the tragedy, it’s the farce I can’t handle.”

20. “Oh, i can deal with the tragedy, it’s the farce I can’t handle.”

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Damon Galgut Quote: “Most of their conversations are in the past by now. They’ve reached that stage in the proceedings and both of them know it and don’t speak of that either. But there is still great softness in two hands linked together on a tabletop.”

21. “Most of their conversations are in the past by now. They’ve reached that stage in the proceedings and both of them know it and don’t speak of that either. But there is still great softness in two hands linked together on a tabletop.”

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Damon Galgut Quote: “The zero point of death has begun to shrink behind them, nobody can live with intense emotions for very long, it’s too exhausting, and everything that can be described can also be made harmless.”

22. “The zero point of death has begun to shrink behind them, nobody can live with intense emotions for very long, it’s too exhausting, and everything that can be described can also be made harmless.”

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Damon Galgut Quote: “But you think there’s an order, you think your actions matter, that they’ll be weighed and judged in some final reckoning. But there is no reckoning. For each of us, death is the last day.”

23. “But you think there’s an order, you think your actions matter, that they’ll be weighed and judged in some final reckoning. But there is no reckoning. For each of us, death is the last day.”

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Damon Galgut Quote: “Waiting in respectful silence is an essential part of the job and he has developed the capacity to simulate deep calm while experiencing none of it. In his core, Mervyn Glass is a frantic man.”

24. “Waiting in respectful silence is an essential part of the job and he has developed the capacity to simulate deep calm while experiencing none of it. In his core, Mervyn Glass is a frantic man.”

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Damon Galgut Quote: “Even in one’s most physical moments, the real craving was for love.”

25. “Even in one’s most physical moments, the real craving was for love.”

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Damon Galgut Quote: “As she starts to read, the book travels into her from a long distance, from his mind to mine, across a gap in time, and now she’s not in the room any more, she’s inside the sentences, one joined to the next like a series of tunnels, connected to each other at angles.”

26. “As she starts to read, the book travels into her from a long distance, from his mind to mine, across a gap in time, and now she’s not in the room any more, she’s inside the sentences, one joined to the next like a series of tunnels, connected to each other at angles.”

— Damon Galgut

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