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“Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence.”

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Abdurrahman Wahid was the fourth President of Indonesia, serving from 1999 to 2001. He was a prominent Islamic scholar and politician, known for his moderate views and efforts to promote religious tolerance and democracy in Indonesia. more

“Even if you have the wit to look by yourself in a bush away from the other children, there are not many bell crickets in the world. Probably you will find a girl like a grasshopper whom you think is a bell cricket.And finally, to your clouded, wounded heart, even a true bell cricket will seem like a grasshopper. Should that day come, when it seems to you that the world is only full of grasshoppers, I will think it a pity that you have no way to remember tonight's play of light, when your name was written in green by your beautiful lantern on a girl's breast.”

“People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.”

People Has Beens Names Wall Development Connections And Love Concrete Defeated Blocked Love And Nature

Author:Yasunari Kawabata

“But a haiku by Buson came into his mind: 'I try to forget this senile love; a chilly autumn shower.' The gloom only grew denser.”

Trying Mind Forget Grew Autumn Showers Gloom Haiku Chilly Senile

Book:The Sound of the Mountain

Source: The Sound of the Mountain

“A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky.Two gulls drift slowly up the river.Vulnerable while they ride the wind,they coast and glide with ease.Dew is heavy on the grass below,the spider's web is ready.Heaven's ways include the human:among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone.”

Way Humans Two Heaven Sky Ready Wind Sorrow Thousand Rivers Edges Heavy Vulnerable Ease Grass Coast Spiders Dew Stand Alone Falcon Gulls I Stand Alone

Author:Du Fu

“The world is born when two people kiss”

People World Two Born Kissing

Book:The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987

Source: The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987

“We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.”

Littles Wall Sight Remains Mere Delight Surface Rays Delicate Clinging Fading

Author:Junichiro Tanizaki

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