"Here I am, a wild beast cut off from his companions."

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Source : Chairil Anwar (1963). “Selected Poems”

Chairil Anwar

#Cutting Quotes #Solitude Quotes #Beast Quotes

“Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.”
“Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.”
“The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.”
“I think the thing that I always try to do - because it piques my interest - is to play really different parts all the time.”
“We can only give away to others what we have inside ourselves.”
“It's not by accident that this has not been resolved in 50 years, but I believe this is the best chance we will have for a long time for there to be a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.”

Source : "Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2000.
“Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.”
“Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities of direct democracy are therefore becoming more topical”

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