Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans:
(The Hague, 2 March 1913 – Bloemendaal, 22 December 1971).
Dutch writer, columnist and media personality.
Bomans has more than 60 books and many other writings to his name. He received little official recognition during his lifetime, at least not in the form of a literary award.
Girls, that’s not for me. When they are nice, I have to laugh. When I am nice, they have to laugh.
For friendship time is an ally, for love a danger.
De kunst van te leven is thuis te zijn alsof men op reis is.
The things you notice casually, dreaming about something else and not knowing you see them, those are best observed. That’s why your childhood memories are indelible.
Happiness has the property of only becoming visible when it is over.
It is not so much in need that one knows one’s friends; a true friend rejoices in your prosperity.
One mines the serious because they lack seriousness. They are so frivolous that they take their opinions for the only truth.
Humour is a beautiful water lily rooted in the murky waters of sorrow.
An opinion does not lose truth by sinning against it itself.
There is an absurdity in democracy and that is that, after all, truth is determined quantitatively.
History is the present, seen through the future.
