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“I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.”
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“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
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“Kau terpelajar, cobalah bersetia pada kata hati.”
― Bumi Manusia
― Bumi Manusia
“Jangan sebut aku perempuan sejati jika hidup hanya berkalang lelaki. Tapi bukan berarti aku tidak butuh lelaki untuk aku cintai. (Nyai Ontosoroh)”
― Bumi Manusia
― Bumi Manusia
“My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.”
― The Island of Dr. Moreau
― The Island of Dr. Moreau
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