Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Child of All Nations

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  • Novita Rondonuwuhas quoted5 years ago
    Imitating is only a chapter in the life of all children. But then there comes a day when children are fully grown. People should prepare themselves to confront that day. Don’t be startled, or shocked and overcome, if on that day reality rears up before you larger than you could ever imagine.
  • Novita Rondonuwuhas quoted5 years ago
    All people and races began by imitating before they could stand by themselves. People should indeed learn to get used to new realities. Reality doesn’t go away because people don’t like it, or just because they insult it.
  • Novita Rondonuwuhas quoted5 years ago
    The busier people become with their searching and their discoveries, the clearer it becomes that they are in fact being pursued by the anxiousness of their own hearts
  • putupandesahas quoted6 years ago
    And love, like every other object and situation, has its shadow. And love’s shadow is called pain. There is nothing without its shadow except light itself.
  • Fina Ameliahas quoted6 years ago
    “Everything that happens under the sun is the business of thinking people.”
  • Fina Ameliahas quoted6 years ago
    “Very easy. Do you think your life is more valuable than that of my wife?”
  • Fina Ameliahas quoted6 years ago
    But the cheat remains a cheat, the liar remains a liar, even with his science and his learning.
  • Fina Ameliahas quoted6 years ago
    But be very careful, because time keeps moving on, whether we like it or not
  • Fina Ameliahas quoted6 years ago
    Amongst ourselves—if all we want to do is hurl insults—it has to be acknowledged that we all don’t stand equally tall; with stupid insults we will only strike back at ourselves
  • Fina Ameliahas quoted6 years ago
    How strange it was if every glory was obtained only at the cost of the suffering of others.
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