“How simple life is. It's as simple as this: you're hungry and you eat, you're full and you shit. Between eating and shitting, that's where human life is found. - (Houseboy + Maid, in Tales from Djakarta)”
― Tales from Djakarta: Caricatures of Circumstances and their Human Beings
― Tales from Djakarta: Caricatures of Circumstances and their Human Beings
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.”
― The Solitaire Mystery
― The Solitaire Mystery
“Indonesia adalah negeri budak. Budak di antara bangsa dan budak bagi bangsa-bangsa lain.”
― Jalan Raya Pos, Jalan Daendels
― Jalan Raya Pos, Jalan Daendels
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
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