Timothy Green

“Insensitive people are only upset when they actually see the blood, but actually by the time that the blood has been shed the tragedy has already completed.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

“Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Bumi Manusia

“Your own actions are a better mirror of your life than the actions of all your enemies put together.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Wizard of the Crow

“It was not only from Europe that so much could be learned! This modern age had provided many breasts to suckle me - from among the Natives themselves, from Japan, China, America, India, Arabia, from all the peoples on the face of this earth... In humility, I realized I am a child of all nations, of all ages, past and present. Place and time of birth, parents, all are coincidence: such things are not sacred.”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer