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“A man who don't know history, he don't know anything.”
― Edward Johnston

“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”
― Winston Churchill

“Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

“where oil flamed in a low, burnished container, and illumination fell on tumbled pillows, and the carved marble base of the bed. ‘I miss you,’ said Laurent. ‘I miss our conversations.”
― C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising

“I think if I gave you my heart, you would treat it tenderly.”
― C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual,
only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can't lick 'em, join 'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
― J.K. Rowling

“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