13 Quotes by Hugo Claus

I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

[...] zoals zij in de bus op weg naar Wierenbeke achter de chauffeur had gezeten met al het verdriet van Belgie in haar ogen.

Scouts hadden een Franse lelie op de riem en werden overigens geregeerd door Engelsen (vanwege hun stichter Baden-Powell) die hun Engelse ceremonies opdrongen, thee drinken, onze stambroeders in Zuid-Afrika in concentratiekampen achter prikkeldraad laten verhongeren, onze geloofsbroeders in Ierland mitrailleren, fair play mijn kloten.

Immanuel Kant""Noch wal

Literatuur wordt door zieken gemaakt. Wie gezond is, schrijft geen boeken.

In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.

Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.

My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.

We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.