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WhiskeyScotch

“Seorang novelis sebaiknya menciptakan “sebuah wilayah di mana tak seorang pun memiliki kebenaran...tapi di mana setiap orang punya hak untuk dimengerti”

― Goenawan Mohamad, Catatan Pinggir 3

WhiskeyScotch

“Kemurnian barangkali memang tak ditakdirkan untuk dunia yang tak kekal, tak tunggal, ini.”

― Goenawan Mohamad, Catatan Pinggir 2

WhiskeyScotch

“Mereka yang terbiasa dengan kekuasaan dan aturan memang umumnya sulit memahami puisi.”

― Goenawan Mohamad, Catatan Pinggir 3

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bianglala

"And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night— every night, every night— the moment I feigned sleep."

- Lolita : VLADIMIR NABOKOV

bianglala

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

The Wisdom of Insecurity : ALAN W. WATTS

bianglala

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) : MARCEL PROUST

bianglala

She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.

The Virgin Suicides : JEFFREY EUGENIDES

bianglala

Each of us had something to learn from the others and something to teach in return.

Confessions : AUGUSTINE

bianglala

There is no passion without secrecy, this secrecy where everything is nonetheless said.

The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Derrida : JACQUES DERRIDA

bianglala

Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals : MICHAEL POLLAN

bianglala

The seeds of life— fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodies’ ills or dulled by earthly limbs and flesh that’s born for death.

The Aeneid: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) : VIRGIL

bianglala

It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done before; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

A Tale of Two Cities (Dover Thrift Editions) : CHARLES DICKENS

bianglala

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

Summertime: Fiction : J.M Coatzee

bianglala

There are limits to what even interested persons can ask of each other.

— David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays

WhiskeyScotch

“Kurasa, buat sebagian orang, seni menjadi bagian penting yang sulit dipisahkan dari diri mereka. Seni juga bentuk pelarian, cara untuk melampiaskan emosi. Mungkin karena itulah, seni terkadang bisa mengubah orang.”

― Winna Efendi, Refrain

WhiskeyScotch

“Sesungguhnya cinta, seni dan imaginasi bukanlah kerjaya orang kaya. Orang kaya mengubah cinta menjadi wang, mengubah seni menjadi wang, mengubah imaginasi menjadi wang. Orang kaya hanya menikmati satu kerjaya sahaja iaitu: menjadi orang kaya. Cinta, seni dan imaginasi ialah kerjaya orang miskin!”

― Ehsan Abdul Kudus, Cinta di Lembah Nil