Ramadhan Dodi

“all the world’s religions cannot be right, and they know it. Sooner or later man has to learn the truth:”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End

“man’s beliefs were his own affair, so long as they did not interfere with the liberty of others.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End

“So this, thought Jan, with a resignation that lay beyond all sadness, was the end of man. It was an end that no prophet had foreseen – an end that repudiated optimism and pessimism alike.

Yet it was fitting: it had the sublime inevitability of a great work of art. Jan had glimpsed the universe in all its immensity, and knew now that it was no place for man. He realized at last how vain, in the ultimate analysis, had been the dream that lured him to the stars.

For the road to the stars was a road that forked in two directions, and neither led to a goal that took any account of human hopes or fears.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind