Quotes from The Lives of Animals — J. M. Coetzee
born 1940 South Africa
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It was from the Chicago stockyards that the Nazis learned how to process bodies.
The Lives of Animals (1999)
I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a huge communal effort, we close our hearts. Each day a fresh holocaust, yet, as far as I can see, our moral being is untouched.
The Lives of Animals (1999)
The people who lived in the countryside around Treblinka—Poles, for the most part—said that they did not know what was going on in the camp; said that, while in a general way they might have guessed what was going on, they did not know for sure; said that, while in a sense they might have known, in another sense they did not know, could not afford to know, for their own sake.
The Lives of Animals (1999)