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“Pekerjaan itu tidak memberiku kelimpahan tapi memberiku keamanan finansial sekaligus kehidupan yang itu-itu saja ”
― Andrea Hirata, Edensor

“Without movement there is no Life...We should use our energy to the fullest.”
― Ai Qing

“Belajarlah. Jika kau belum mengerti, kau akan melakukan kesalahan lagi. Tetapi itu wajar. Sebab tak ada satupun manusia yang bisa berjalan tanpa terlebih dahulu terjatuh, bukan? Tetapi, teruslah berjalan. Kapanpun kau merasa pintar, kau akan terjatuh—melakukan kesalahan. Maka teruslah merasa bodoh, sebab kau harus terus belajar.”
― Fahd Djibran, Perjalanan Rasa

“Dunia tengah berangkat gila, dan di zaman ini hanya orang gila yang berkeinginan mengubah atau menyelamatkan dunia. Seandainya tiap manusia cukup rendah hati untuk menyelamatkan sebuah dunianya terlebih dulu

(Cala Ibi, h.151)”
― Nukila Amal

“Inilah yang dulu kukatakan, dalam hidup segala hal mestilah dilakukan pada batas kewajaran. Karena keselamatan berada di tengah antara dua hal yang saling berlawanan. Jadi keselamatan adalah jalan tengah, atau kewajaran atau keberimbangan. Yang kita saksikan akhir-akhir ini adalah kehidupan yang serba tidak wajar, melampaui batas. Dan kehidupan takkan kembali berimbang sebelum dia mengalami akibat ketidakwajaran itu. E, anakku, cucuku, kita sendiri telah ikut-ikutan lupa.”
― Ahmad Tohari, Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk

“Marriage was an economic institution in which you were given a partnership for life in terms of children and social status and succession and companionship. But now we want our partner to still give us all these things, but in addition I want you to be my best friend and my trusted confidant and my passionate lover to boot, and we live twice as long. So we come to one person, and we basically are asking them to give us what once an entire village used to provide: Give me belonging, give me identity, give me continuity, but give me transcendence and mystery and awe all in one. Give me comfort, give me edge. Give me novelty, give me familiarity. Give me predictability, give me surprise. And we think it’s a given, and toys and lingerie are going to save us with that. Ideally, though, we’re lucky, and we find our soul mate and enjoy that life-changing mother lode of happiness. But a soul mate is a very hard thing to find.”
― Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance

“Jangan sekali-kali meminta maaf untuk mempertahankan prinsip!”
― Leila S. Chudori, Pulang

“Aku tidak memilih waktu tertentu untuk membaca. Setiap aku punya waktu luang, aku membaca. Kapan saja, di mana saja. Pulang ke rumah, sebelum tidur, aku membaca. Bangun pagi, aku membaca dulu. Pokoknya, ketika tidak melakukan apa-apa, aku membaca buku. Atau, ketika aku sedang tidak ingin bermalas-malasan, aku membaca. Aku kadang-kadang memang hanya ingin bermalas-malasan. Di luar itu, setiap punya kesempatan, aku membaca. Lima atau enam halaman.

Justru aku biasanya tidak membaca buku ketika sedang dengan sengaja ingin jalan-jalan. Aku ingin jalan-jalan saja. Karena, aku merasa buku justru jadi gangguan. Membaca membuatku tidak bisa melihat apa-apa yang lain.”
― Eka Kurniawan

“I want to see you.

Know your voice.

Recognize you when you
first come 'round the corner.

Sense your scent when I come
into a room you've just left.

Know the lift of your heel,
the glide of your foot.

Become familiar with the way
you purse your lips
then let them part,
just the slightest bit,
when I lean in to your space
and kiss you.

I want to know the joy
of how you whisper
"more”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Kita ini sangat ingin dibilang orang kota, sampai-sampai kita lupa, kampungan memiliki makna yang romantis. Dan si orang kota ini terus menerus mengeluh soal betapa buruknya tata kota, kemacetan, dan membanding-bandingkan keadaan dulu dengan sekarang. Lalu mereka dengan tak tahu diri memuja-muja harum tanah basah, mencari udara segar ke hutan, memotret langit senja di gunung atau matahari terbenam di laut, tapi nggak ada yang mau hidup di kampung atau merubuhkan kota mereka dan menjadikannya kampung lagi. Mereka takut kehilangan kemapanan yang mereka bangun untuk menunjang hidup enak dan praktis. Yang bisa mereka lakukan hanya mengkhayal tentang kehidupan desa sambil minum kopi.”
― Sabda Armandio, Kamu: Cerita yang Tidak Perlu Dipercaya

“For three months,
a person sits and looks at you,
imagining a kiss.”
― Etgar Keret

“He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That’s right — something out of something. Because something out of nothing is when you make something up out of thin air, in which case it has no value. Anybody can do that. But something out of something means it was really there the whole time, inside you, and you discover it as part of something new, that’s never happened before.”
― Etgar Keret, פתאום דפיקה בדלת

“Menurutku jatuh cinta itu nggak indah-indah amat. Kau buka hatimu supaya seseorang masuk ke dalam, kau jaga dia agar betah dan sehat, dan seterusnya, dan seterusnya. Seperti memelihara orang lain di dalam tubuh sendiri. Sialnya, kau nggak punya perangkat untuk sepenuhnya memahami orang lain.”
― Sabda Armandio, Kamu: Cerita yang Tidak Perlu Dipercaya

“It's funny the decisions you make because you like someone, he says, and then your whole life is different. I think we're at that weird age where life can change a lot from small decisions.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“When something was strange, everyone thought they had the right to come stomping in all over your life to figure out why. I found that arrogant and infuriating, not to mention a pain in the neck. Sometimes I even wanted to hit them with a shovel to shut them up, like I did that time in elementary school. But I recalled how upset my sister had been when I’d casually mentioned this to her before and kept my mouth shut.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“This society hasn't changed one bit. People who don't fit into the village are expelled: men who don't hunt, women who don't give birth to children. For all we talk about modern society and individualism, anyone who doesn't try to fit in can expect to be meddled with, coerced, and ultimately banished from the village.”
― Sayaka Murata, コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]

“The normal world has no room for exceptions and always quietly eliminates foreign objects. Anyone who is lacking is disposed of.

So that’s why I need to be cured. Unless I’m cured, normal people will expurgate me. Finally I understood why my family had tried so hard to fix me.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“All my anxiety is separation anxiety.
I want to believe you are here with me,
But the bed is bigger and the trash
Overflows.
Someone righteous should
Take out my garbage.
I am so many odd”
― Jericho Brown, The Tradition

“When I am touched, brushed, and measured, I think of myself
As a painting. The artist works no matter the lack of sleep. I am
made
Beautiful. I never eat. I once bothered with a man who called me”
― Jericho Brown, The Tradition

“Parting and death are both terribly painful. But to keep nursing the memory of a love so great you can’t believe you’ll ever love again is a useless drain on a woman’s energies.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“For one thing, I was breathing more easily than I had been even yesterday. I was sick to death at the prospect of more suffocatingly lonely nights. The idea that they would be repeated, that was just how life was, made me shudder with horror. Still, having tasted for myself that moment when I suddenly could breathe easy again made my heart beat faster.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces; defeat invades from within, I thought. I had lost my last ounce of
strength. Before my eyes something was coming to an end, something I didn’t want to end, but for which I lacked the energy
to suffer, much less fight. There was only a leaden hopelessness in me.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“I felt powerless to stop the energy from rush-
ing out of my body; it seemed to dissipate with a hissing sound into the darkness.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“That is the other important point of this book. We can’t go back to the past, and we can’t even hold on to what we have now. Something new is coming—and indeed, in some way, all four futures are already here, “unevenly distributed,” in William Gibson’s phrase. It’s up to us to build the collective power to fight for the futures we want.”
― Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism

“But we can also say that even in a society without clear rulers, history will tend to
empathize with the survivors; they are, after all, literally the only ones around to write it.”
― Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism

“Things in our world may not play out with such literal deceptions, but we can already see how our political and economic elites manage to justify ever-higher levels of misery and death while remaining convinced that they are great humanitarians.”
― Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism

“The great danger posed by the automation of production, in the context of a world of hierarchy and scarce resources, is that it makes the great mass of people superfluous from the standpoint of the ruling elite. This is in contrast to capitalism, where the antagonism between capital and labor was characterized by both a clash of interests and a relationship of mutual dependence: the workers depend on capitalists as long as they don’t control the
means of production themselves, while the capitalists need workers to run their factories and shops.”
― Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism

“If we can tackle the inequalities that make our current market societies so brutal, we might have a chance of deploying market
mechanisms to organize consumption in an ecologically limited world, allowing all of us to come through capitalism and climate
change as equals—“alive in the sunshine,” as the eco-socialist and Jacobin magazine editor Alyssa Battistoni says in a reference to Virginia Woolf.”
― Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism

“Mainstream economists have for generations made the same argument about the supposed danger that automation poses to labor. If some jobs are automated, they argue, labor is freed up for other, new, and perhaps better kinds of work. They point to agriculture, which once occupied most of the workforce but now occupies only about 2 percent of it in a country like the United States.”
― Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism

“The right to intellectual property is ultimately not a right to a concrete thing but to a pattern. That is, it does not just protect “your right to control your copy of your idea” in the way that it protects my right to control my shoes or my house. Rather, it grants the right to tell others how to use copies of an idea that they “own.”
― Peter Frase