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“Seorang pawang baru mempunyai makna bila dia berdiri di belakang seekor kerbau yang tetap tegar dan mau bekerja sama.”

"Well, I had just decided to ditch Buddy Willard for once and for all, not because he'd slept with that waitress but because he didn't have the honest guts to admit it straight off to everybody and face up to it as part of his character,"

CLOCKED IT!

"I was living precariously in my own body; that is to say, I had not fallen into who I was, or who I was becoming. What I wanted for myself was a new composition."

well..... WELL

"The way she made him feel loved in the beginning, the way she made him feel unloved towards the end, but he would do up the buttons of her coat any day."

BANGGGGG

whatever the hell this book is about

"Whirl man's mind around about so fast under the pumping hands of publishers, exploiters, broadcasters, that the centrifuge flings off all unnecessary, time-wasting thought!"

this just the thing genAI does to people's.

"How unbearable the body of a living being who fights with death, and now seems to win, now to lose. I don’t know how long we remained like that."

“The hands forgot, the fingers had no memory of the right grip, the correct pressure.”

i found this sentence about locks fascinating.

WHATS THE TITLE OF PART 18?!?

"Here’s this guy, walking all over you, slapping you around, and you can’t go anywhere or do anything without his explicit permission. You can’t even leave the house. That’s slavery. Why should you have to put up with some random dude’s bullshit? Just because you’re married?"

"Things were hard when I had no one watching out for me, but at least I’d been free to do as I pleased. But what right did I have to complain? I was sick of hearing my own thoughts."

this one got a little kick in it.

“Your life would have been better if you never had me. Think about how great everything would be if none of us were ever born. No happiness, no sadness. Nothing could ever happen to us then.”

oh..........

"Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds."

"But that’s because those others had had help along the way, and Chris Langan never had. It wasn’t an excuse. It was a fact. He’d had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses—ever makes it alone."

harsh truth. heartbreaking part. we have privilege in some ways—some, yet it's still not enough.

“The Greek word idiótes can mean a fool, as our idiot implies. But it also carries the definition of one who is private, unengaged with worldly affairs—his idiocy is derived not from lack of natural faculties, but from ignorance and lack of education.”

“…they [translator] could be the most dangerous scholars of them all, because they’re the ones who really understand languages—know how they live and breathe and how they can make our blood pump, our skin prickle, with just a turn of phrase.”

“Under certain conditions, one of which is the sleeping state, the balance of power between the two procedures is so changed that what is repressed can no longer be kept back. In the sleeping state this may possibly occur through the negligence of the censor; what has been hitherto repressed will now succeed in finding its way to consciousness.”

ok he cooked.

“It is interesting to note that they are right who regard the dream as foretelling the future. Although the future which the dream shows us is not that which will occur, but that which we would like to occur.”

oh!

‘They would both remain perfectly content to linger in the liminal, endless space between truth and denial.’

“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”

“We shall meet again——if we do meet again——“
“In the place where there is no darkness?”
“In the place where there is no darkness.”

HRGGKHVHRAGGKGRAGHKRBGAH [CAR CRASHI [GLASS SHATTERING] 'GOOD LORD!' [GENERAL COMMOTIONI [INTENSE CRYING] 'WAAAAH WAAAAH' [YELLING] [POLICE SIRENS] WEEWOO WEEWOO [HELICOPTERS] 'WE'RE REPORTING LIVE- [EXPLOSION]

The terrible thing that the Party had done was to persuade you that mere impulses, mere feelings, were of no account, while at the same time robbing you of all power over the material world.”

“There are three possibilities for her. […] She could fling herself into the canal, end up in lunatic asylum, or… or finally, become immersed in a life of depravity, thereby numbing her mind and turning her heart to stone.”

“He’s an intelligent man, but in order to act sensibly, you need more than intelligence.” — Rodya

normal ppl: i love you!

dostoevsky: i’m a luckless buffoon… i’m unworthy of you… i’m drunk, and i’m ashamed… i am not worthy of loving you, but anyone who is not a total beast must bow down and worship you!

“…the fact that he was walking about the place so scruffily dressed was the least of his worries. It would have been quite a different matter had he come across anyone he knew or former fellow students—people he generally didn’t like meeting anyway.”

fascinating how much the world has changed and yet, some things stay the same.

“We… we have been deprived by our own history. Jadi, ini masalah yang sudah kronis sejak lahirnya Orde Baru, ketika sejarah modern Indonesia betul-betul dikuasai pemerintah.”

and majority of people have decided to repeat this nation’s very own mistake, i’m afraid.

“…ini semua bukan karena ingin membangun tata aturan yang rapi, melainkan karena keinginan kontrol yang tak terbatas.”