

“Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?”
― El Filibusterismo
― El Filibusterismo

“Mga mamamayan din ang mga bumubuo ng gobyerno at sila ang higit na nakapag-aral.'
'Ngunit tulad po ng ibang tao, nagkakamali kaya hindi dapat maging bingi sa kuro-kuro ng iba.”
― El Filibusterismo
'Ngunit tulad po ng ibang tao, nagkakamali kaya hindi dapat maging bingi sa kuro-kuro ng iba.”
― El Filibusterismo

“It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“When a people holds onto its language, it holds onto a semblance of freedom, like a man who holds onto his independence when he retains his own way of thinking. Language is the thought of a people.”
― El Filibusterismo
― El Filibusterismo

“We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest, struggling at length to blind unreasoning panic - now mercifully stilled, thank God - might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion as it had before.”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
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