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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. (Page 125)"
Cees NooteboomThat is the difference between gods and men. Gods can change themselve — Cees Nooteboom
"That is the difference between gods and men. Gods can change themselves; humans can only be changed."
Cees Nooteboom
Cees Nooteboom
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Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria "Cees" Nooteboom was a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist. After the attention received by his novel Rituals, which won the Pegasus Prize, it was the first of his novels to be translated into an English-language edition, published in 1983 by Louisiana State University Press of the United States. LSU Press published his two earlier novels in English in the following
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