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“Mendapat upah kerena menyenangkan orang lain yang tidak punya persangkutan dengan kata hati sendiri, kan itu dalam seni namanya pelacuran?”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Gabriel García Márquez: a Life

“Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”
― Voltaire

“One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.”
― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

“To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd. ”
― Voltaire

“One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.”
― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

“Semakin aku banyak membaca, semakin aku banyak berpikir; semakin aku banyak belajar, semakin aku sadar bahwa aku tak mengetahui apa pun”
― Voltaire

“He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher. ”
― Voltaire, Candide, or, Optimism

“Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame”
― Voltaire, Micromegas

“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
― Voltaire, Candide, or, Optimism

“I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.”
― Voltaire

“Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”
― Voltaire

“Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.”
― Voltaire

“Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.”
― Voltaire

“Only your friends steal your books.”
― Voltaire

“But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.”
― Voltaire, Candide, or, Optimism

“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbor's, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.”
― Francois Voltaire

“To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.”
― Voltaire

“History should be written as philosophy.”
― Voltaire

“It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.”
― Voltaire

“God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.”
― Voltaire

“God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
― Voltaire

“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
― Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes

“Cuba fikirkan, pelangi adalah penyebaran seluruh warna di dalam spektrum cahaya. Berapa warnakah ada dalam spektrum cahaya? Jawapannya adalah dekat infiniti, bukan? Maka, jumlah warna pelangi adalah terlalu banyak sehingga infiniti juga. Mungkin tona warna dekat-dekat, maka otak manusia tak boleh bezakan.

Masa sekolah bolehlah cakap 7 warna, sekarang sudah faham tentang spektrum, tak bolehlah memikirkan masih tujuh lagi.”
― Saharil Hasrin Sanin

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin