Tony

“One step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. And what is there? Who is there?--there beyond that field, that tree, that roof lit up by the sun? No one knows, but one wants to know. You fear and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death. But you are strong, healthy, cheerful, and excited, and are surrounded by other such excitedly animated and healthy men.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself. And, indeed, the whole book seemed to him to contain the story of his own life, written before he had lived it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Sungguh, teman-teman sekolah akan mentertawakan aku sekenyangya melihat sandiwara bagaimana manusia biasa berjalan sepeuh kaki di atas telapak kaki sendiri sekarang harus berjalan setengah kaki, dengan bantuan dua belah tangan. Ya Allah, kau nenek moyang, kau, apa sebab kau ciptakan adat menghina martabat turunanmu sendiri begini macam? Tak pernah terpikir olehmu, nenek moyang yang keterlaluan! Keturunanmu bisa lebih mulia tanpa menghinakan kau! Sial dangkal! Mengapa kau sampai hati mewariskan adat semacam ini?”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Bumi Manusia

“Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”
― Oscar Wilde