“Beauty meant that you were good. And being good meant being happy. Happiness can be defined all kinds of ways, but human beings, consciously or unconsciously, are always pulling for their own version of happiness. Even people who want to die see death as a kind of solace, and view ending their lives as the only way to make it there. Happiness is the base unit of consciousness, our single greatest motivator. Saying "I just want to be happy" trumps any other explanation. But who knows. Maybe Makiko had a more specific reason, not just some vague idea of how to make herself happy.”
― Breasts and Eggs
― Breasts and Eggs
“Mereka harus menerima kenyataan, bahwa untuk menjadi cerdas, mereka membutuhkan uang. Sopir angkot hanya mau mengantar ke sekolah bila dikasih uang. Guru-guru pun hanya mau mengajar jika dikasih uang.
Namun uang tidak gampang dicari. Hanya daun yang gampang dicari. Dan hanya sapi, di kandang karantina itu, yang mau dikasih daun.”
― Orang-Orang Oetimu
Namun uang tidak gampang dicari. Hanya daun yang gampang dicari. Dan hanya sapi, di kandang karantina itu, yang mau dikasih daun.”
― Orang-Orang Oetimu
“Menulislah, agar hidupmu tak seperti hewan ternak, sekadar makan dan minum sebelum disembelih," kata Loki Tua waktu itu.”
― Raden Mandasia si Pencuri Daging Sapi
― Raden Mandasia si Pencuri Daging Sapi
“Communism was born from a beautiful dream, the likes of which there will never be again on the face of this earth: that there would no longer be lazy men who eat their fill while others work hard and starve.”
― Beauty Is a Wound
― Beauty Is a Wound
“I believe in movement. I believe in that lighthearted balloon, the world. I believe in midnight and the hour of noon. But what else do I believe in? Sometimes everything. Sometimes nothing. It fluctuates like light flitting over a pond. I believe in life, which one day each of us shall lose. When we are young we think we won’t, that we are different. As a child I thought I would never grow up, that I could will it so. And then I realized, quite recently, that I had crossed some line, unconsciously cloaked in the truth of my chronology. How did we get so damn old? I say to my joints, my iron-colored hair. Now I am older than my love, my departed friends. Perhaps I will live so long that the New York Public Library will be obliged to hand over the walking stick of Virginia Woolf. I would cherish it for her, and the stones in her pocket. But I would also keep on living, refusing to surrender my pen.”
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