Kadang aku merasa sudah dekat dengan kegilaan.
Kamu tahu apa yang paling menyakitkan saat perasaanmu begitu terikat kepada seseorang?

Bukan karena kamu tidak bisa menyatu dengan dia maka kamu akan merasa hidupmu begitu nestapa. Sesuatu yang lebih meluluhlantakkan hatimu adalah ketika seseorang -yang menyandera kemampuanmu untuk memiliki itu- tak melibatkan lagi namamu dalam hidupnya, tidak mengingat tanggal lahirmu, tidak mengucapkan apapun ketika datang tahun baru, bahkan tidak mengirimkan pesan basa-basi pada hari perayaan agamamu.

Kamu tidak terlibat sama sekali dalam hidupnya. Bahkan sekadar untuk diingat.


Tasaro G.K.

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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become c...
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be ...
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Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the ...
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The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.
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But the new rebel is a skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore h...
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares...
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There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.
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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
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It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth...
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It was his home now. But it could not be his home till he had gone from it and returned to it. Now h...
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The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.
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A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ...
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Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is mor...
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The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror,...
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People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read mor...
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Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money...
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All the towering materialism which dominates the modern mind rests ultimately upon one assumption; a...
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The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and ...
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The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into th...
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Coincidences are spiritual puns.
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This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and cre...
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There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well ...
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The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.
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The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul...
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The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul...
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness double...
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...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, ab...
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Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we hav...
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Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.
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The future is a blank wall on which every man can write his own name as large as he likes; the past ...
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The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war wi...
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It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a b...
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I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.
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She(Joan of Arc) put her dreams and her sentiment into her aims, where they ought to be; she put her...
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In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage t...
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Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would c...
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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... just as when we see a pig in a litter larger than the other pigs, we know that by an unalterable...
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And it did certainly appear that the prophets had put the people (engaged in the old game of Cheat t...
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Then the small man suddenly ran after them and said:
"I want to get my haircut. I say, do you k...
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Adam Wayne, the conqueror, with his face flung back and his mane like a lion's, stood with his great...
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Cooking is an art; it has in it personality, and even perversity, for the definition of an art is th...
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I can only put it sufficiently curtly in a careless simile. A Socialist means a man who thinks a wal...
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In the lower classes the school master does not work for the parent, but against the parent. Modern ...
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The only persons who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
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We have actually contrived to invent a new kind of hypocrite. The old hypocrite, Tartuffe or Pecksni...
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Now I have no notion at all of propounding a new ideal. There is no new ideal imaginable by the madn...
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If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer ...
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There are, I believe, some who still deny that England is governed by an oligarchy. It is quite enou...
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But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before...
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Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... But the thing is ...
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A head can be beaten small enough until it fits the hat.
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No one has even begun to understand comradeship who does not accept with it a certain hearty eagerne...
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No one has even begun to understand comradeship who does not accept with it a certain hearty eagerne...
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Men have not got tired of Christianity; they have never found enough Christianity to get tired of. M...
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It is very currently suggested that the modern man is the heir of all the ages, that he has got the ...
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Thrift is poetic because it is creative.
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The chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself,...
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No man demands what he desires; each man demands what he fancies he can get. Soon people forget what...
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There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in off...
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When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.
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In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.
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All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...E...
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Babies need not to be taught a trade, but to be introduced to a world. To put the matter shortly, wo...
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An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution...
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As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the...
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The paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings
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..."vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a d...
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I do not deny, but strongly affirm, the right of the State to interfere to cure a great evil. I say ...
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To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ...
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It is quite certain that the skirt means female dignity, not female submission; it can be proved by ...
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On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the...
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The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accide...
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I had tried to be happy by telling myself that man is an animal, like any other which sought its mea...
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[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run...
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That a good man may have his back to the wall is no more than we knew already, but that God could ha...
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If Innocent is happy, it is because he is innocent. If he can defy the conventions, it is just becau...
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There is something sinister about putting a leprechaun in a workhouse. The only solid comfort is tha...
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Man may behold what ugliness he likes if he is sure that he will not worship it; but there are some ...
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If we are calm," replied the policeman, "it is the calm of organized resistance."
"Eh?" said Sy...
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Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed...
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As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No...
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I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry,' answered Father Brown. 'The things that ...
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens...
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for edu...
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A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should ...
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A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A mode...
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, b...
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There is a limit to human charity," said Lady Outram, trembling all over.

"There is," sai...
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He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of c...
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Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being ...
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We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But wha...
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly,
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practica...
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He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's wha...
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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
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The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautifu...
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
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My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperat...
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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