Pramoedya Ananta Toer's most famous quotes
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: One may be as clever as the sky is high, but as long as one does not write, one will be lost to society and to history. · An educated person must learn to be fair already in their thoughts, let alone in their deeds. · Love is beautiful, Minke, too beautiful, the thing one can find in this short human life.. (Updated Jan 2, 2024.)
"One may be as clever as the sky is high, but as long as one does not write, one will be lost to society and to history" and being fair even in one's thoughts: the most quoted lines of Pramoedya Ananta Toer, mostly from the Buru Quartet, with the character and the book.
Automatically translated (original in Bahasa Indonesia). See the original
Top 13
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One may be as clever as the sky is high, but as long as one does not write, one will be lost to society and to history.
Minke, House of Glass (1988).
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An educated person must learn to be fair already in their thoughts, let alone in their deeds.
Jean Marais, This Earth of Mankind (1980).
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Love is beautiful, Minke, too beautiful, the thing one can find in this short human life.
Jean Marais, This Earth of Mankind (1980).
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No love appears suddenly, because it is a child of culture, not a stone fallen from the sky.
Jean Marais, This Earth of Mankind (1980).
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You may advance in your studies and earn any string of degrees, but without loving literature you remain merely clever animals.
Magda Peters, This Earth of Mankind (1980).
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Life can give everything to whoever knows how to receive.
Nyai Ontosoroh, This Earth of Mankind (1980).
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Resist, Minke, with everything you can and everything you cannot.
Jean Marais, This Earth of Mankind (1980).
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Life is balanced, sir. Whoever looks only at its joys is mad. Whoever looks only at its suffering is sick.
Kommer, Child of All Nations (1980).
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Without studying your own language, you will never know your own people.
Kommer, Child of All Nations (1980).
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Names may change a thousand times a day; the meaning stays.
Nyai Ontosoroh, Child of All Nations (1980).
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Life is truly very simple. Only its interpretations are grand.
Pangemanann, House of Glass (1988).
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Every piece of writing is a world of its own, floating between the world of reality and the world of dreams.
Pangemanann, House of Glass (1988).
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I hold to Multatuli's teaching that the duty of a human being is to be human.
Interview with Tempo magazine (1999).
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