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Intermezzo

by Sally Rooney (Goodreads Author)

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“But I wasn’t crying because I was sad. I guess I was crying because we had nowhere else to go, no choice but to go on living in this world. Crying because we had no other world to choose, and crying at everything before us, everything around us.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

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“Aku sering berpikir pengorbanan adalah perbuatan yang egois. Ada kepentingan pribadi di situ. Kepentingan untuk meyakinkan diri bahwa kita adalah orang yang mulia.”
― Venerdi Handoyo, Pemetik Bintang

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“Because we’re always in pain, we know exactly what it means to hurt somebody else.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

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“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.”
― Felix K. Nesi, Orang-Orang Oetimu

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“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.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

tags: beauty, breasts-and-eggs, happiness, mieko-kawakami

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