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“The fracture of pencil still useful, but the fracture of soul, we couldn't use it, Mister.”

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Pramoedya Ananta Toer was a renowned Indonesian author known for his profound insights into colonialism and nationalism. His works extensively covered historical, social, and political issues, profoundly influencing Indonesian literature. more

“You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, And how, how rare and strange it is, to find In a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends, (For indeed I do not love it ... you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!) To find a friend who has these qualities, Who has, and gives Those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you- Without these friendships-life, what cauchemar!”

Knows Giving Mean Ends Quality Know How Strange My Friends Blind Odds Odds And Ends

Book:The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

“This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.”

Looks Kind Moments Romance Night Peace Healing Solitude Seeking

Book:Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“The march of the human mind is slow.”

Mind Humans Progress March Human Mind

Book:The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke

Source: The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke

“You know what i can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, i mean endlessly, i've been telling you for years. So why don't you believe it? why do you think people say that stuff, Em? Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice about you?”

People Thinking Knows Years Believe Mean I Can Stuff Nice Smart Ems Conspiracy Being Nice Cheer Up Smart And Funny Ganging Up

Author:David Nicholls

“Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you”

World Call Me Sentimental Dysentery

Book:One Day

Source: One Day

“...Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she had always needed the most.”

Important Self Quality Needed Lazy Righteous Pretentious Judgmental Emma Self Righteous Self Confident Paragon

Author:David Nicholls

“You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle”

Ifs Giving Would Be Self Confidence Just One If I Could Candle Gorgeous Rest Of Your Life Scented Candles

Book:One Day

Source: One Day

“You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila swooned inside. She tried to read his face but was met by a look that was indecipherable: the cheerful, cretinous grin at odds with the narrow, half desperate look in his eyes. A clever look, calculated to fall precisely at the midpoint between mockery and sincerity”

Thinking Knows Looks Eye Faces Fall Girl Half Subjects Changed Mets Empty Sexy Clever His Eyes Desperate Sincerity Odds Cheerful Mockery You Changed

Book:The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

“Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she and Tariq had done was not sinful; that it had been natural, good, beautiful, even inevitable, spurred by the knowledge that they might never see each other again.”

Done Might Beautiful Sides Natural Battle Shame Guilt Conviction Inevitable

Book:A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

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