Top 250 Titon Rahmawan Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “When a person cannot see his own darkness, he is not free. He was only free, if he could escape from the shadows that shaded him. This is like the story of little Bruce Wayne who fell into a well and as an adult transformed into the figure of Batman.”

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152. “Life stretches between birth and death. Distance, just a breath.”

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153. “Dan bibir, ia tak selalu hadir menjadi sebuah puisi. Ia indah, menawan, walau tak selalu memberi sebuah senyum atau kecupan.”

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154. “Momen kesendirian adalah ketakutan terbesar dari seorang badut. Momen di mana tidak ada orang lain yang bisa dia hibur dan dia buat mereka tertawa. Itulah sebabnya mengapa para badut itu sering merasa kesepian.”

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155. “Truth leaves no room for any speck of doubt. His existence is absolute and undisputed.”

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156. “The main weakness of our mind is, we depend our lives on what we think is right or what people agree on as truth. Truth is not like that, it does not come as an assumption, let alone as a mutual agreement. Truth is absolute, autonomous and stands outside what some or many people think. Truth transcends all human minds.”

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157. “Bagaimana sebuah kalimat bisa memiliki kekuatan yang menghipnotis? Seperti suara hujan yang jatuh menimpa air kolam di pekarangan rumah dan membuat kita terpesona.”

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158. “I have a lot of love for other people, there is a lot of value that I can share for them. But I’m not making a house out of paper. I want to build trust and not jealousy or false hopes. But how difficult it is to make people understand it.”

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159. “That’s me, beautiful and what it is. Smooth without hair. The depth is completely pink, contrasting against my dark brown skin. Completely naked, without any covering, without pretense. Something clearly different from all the reluctance and hypocrisy you have known so far.”

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160. “For me, life should be more than imagination. Where can I voice my own heart and mind. As a dog is free to bark and even bite a hypocritical reality. Hypocritical humans who have feel that they are much better than anyone, but they are not even better than a dog.”

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161. “Humans will no longer see what appears, aging and wrinkled skin. In the end we will only see with the heart, all go towards to the eternity.”

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162. “Pada saat seorang penulis mengabaikan pembacanya dan hanya fokus pada dirinya sendiri atau pada kepuasan estetiknya sendiri. Itu sama saja mengingkari tujuan mulia, bahwa sebuah karya harus ditulis dengan sebentuk kepedulian dan bukannya sekedar upaya untuk mendapatkan orgasme pribadi lewat cara masturbasi.”

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163. “Tujuan utama kehadiran sebuah sajak, bukan sekedar untuk merayakan kepedihan, atau mengungkapkan rasa sekedar. Ia harus sanggup memberikan kehidupan dan tempat yang seluas-luasnya bagi kreativitas. Sebagaimana batu hidup bersama dengan waktu dan menjeritkan kebisuannya. Sebagaimana waktu hidup dan berdetak di tengah tengah kita bersama keberadaan kata-kata.”

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164. “Menjadi penulis, aku kira berangkat dari sebuah kesadaran, bahwa ada sesuatu hal yang berharga yang ingin kita sampaikan kepada orang lain. Sesuatu yang bisa menggugah hati dan pikiran orang lain. Sesuatu yang kita yakini akan menghadirkan manfaat saat kita membagikannya dengan orang lain. Sebuah persembahan bagi dunia. Terlepas dari kenyataan, apakah dunia bersedia menerimanya atau tidak.”

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165. “Tell me, do you think there is a crumb of ignorance in a loaf of wisdom bread?”

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166. “There are no boundaries between me and you. There is nothing hidden between us. I accept your badness just as I accept all your goodness. And I am grateful, because you are doing the same thing.”

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167. “Please, stop pretending. Because no one has the right to determine a person’s dignity and self-worth other than herself. To me, all women are prostitutes. They will sooner or later pawn their pride and virginity. Whether for dowry, love, happiness, personal pleasures, demands of life necessities, family future, household integrity or whatever.”

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168. “Tak hendak lengan sentuh gemintang, kalau tak engkau rentangkan sayap.”

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169. “Truth is absolute. He leaves no room for a single bit of doubt. Therefore he may only go down. He can’t go up.”

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170. “Yang membuatnya abadi bukanlah sembarang kalimat, melainkan ruh atau makna yang terkandung di dalam kalimat itu. Karena tidak setiap kalimat akan menjadi abadi. Ia menjadi abadi karena meninggalkan jejak di benak dan menyentuh banyak hati.”

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171. “Having secrets doesn’t make a relationship better. That’s why I don’t cover anything from hubby. In all my relationships with other people I don’t need their understanding. For me the understanding from my hubby is more than enough. Because he never judged me or look at me from other eyes than my own happiness. Maybe that’s why I felt like I didn’t have to cover anything up in front of him. There is not a single secret that I hide from him.”

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172. “But in its own way, fiction transcends reality. Often it is smarter, more fun and more touching. It is not always flat and boring. It can dive sharply or soar. In many ways, it is also entertaining and enlightening.”

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173. “As a writer I could die, and die and die over and over again. It doesn’t matter to me, as long as my writing lives on.”

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174. “You are wrong if you consider success as a goal, because there is no definite benchmark for success. The process that we have to go through is what counts. How we are able to overcome all obstacles and steep winding roads.”

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175. “If there is still a doubt about the truth behind the existence of human being, then the answer to that doubt is the fact that humans are not in control of their own destiny.”

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176. “Takdirkulah untuk menjadi seorang penggoda. Bukan untuk meruntuhkan iman laki-laki, melainkan untuk mengukuhkan keberadaan mereka sendiri. Bagi pria lemah, godaan akan membuat mereka terguncang dan jatuh. Namun bagi pria kuat, mereka akan berdiri semakin teguh seberapa pun besarnya godaan godaan itu.”

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177. “Aku akan terus terkenang dan berterimakasih kepada guru guruku. Karena tanpa mereka, aku tidak akan mungkin menjadi diriku yang sekarang.”

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178. “Sungguh sangat disayangkan,” batinku, “Ia seperti menggali luka dan kesedihan dari hati orang lain. Apakah hanya dengan cara seperti itu ia dapat melupakan lukanya sendiri? Apakah dengan umpatan dan makian ia dapat mewujudkan apa yang ia mau?”

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179. “How can you explain the essence of truth, if you don’t know what truth is. You never saw it, you never felt it and you were not touched by it either.”

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180. “Why do I like nudity. I didn’t do it without purpose. When I wear clothes it means I have to put on a character, wear a mask. Pretend to be someone else. Clothes seem to prevent me from being who I am. Clothes don’t make me comfortable. I like denying my own nature. Precisely when I don’t wear anything, I feel clean, innocent, free and happy. I have nothing to hide from the world, from other people, from myself.”

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181. “We often do not believe in what we feel and therefore we ask for evidence from others that what we feel is right. We never even truly believe that true love exists and their eyes never turn away from our face.”

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182. “For me, life should be a processes of thought, not merely about big ideas or great ideas, but also about a small and simple things.”

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183. “Kamu salah kalau berpikir, bahwa cinta itu tentang dirimu sendiri, pukau dari pesona yang kamu tangkap sekilas. Apa yang membuatmu terperangkap dalam ilusi dan angan-angan. Apa yang membuatmu terlelap di dalam mimpi. Cinta itu tak selalu cantik dan menyenangkan. Ia kadang kasar, keras hati dan menyakitkan. Tapi justru di situlah letak esensinya. Ini bukan semata mata tentang dirimu. Sebab cinta tak pernah sendiri. Ia bisa saja sunyi, namun ia tak pernah sendiri.”

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184. “Pernahkah terpikir olehmu, bahwa dalam setiap pemberian Tuhan ada terselip sebuah amanah, hingga sejauh mana kita mampu bersyukur? Betapa hampir dalam setiap doa kita hanya mampu meminta, dan hampir tak pernah terbersit sedikit pun pikiran, apa yang sepatutnya kita persembahkan sebagai ungkapan rasa terima kasih kita kepada Nya?”

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185. “People are busy looking for their own happiness, but most of them don’t find it. Because they are looking in the wrong place.”

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186. “How can a sentence have such hypnotic power? Like when we hear the sound of rain falling on the water pond in the yard.”

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187. “The advantage of a fiction is that it can present the truth through lies.”

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188. “Ketika pikiran kita mulai diliputi oleh rasa takut dan kekhawatiran. Itu adalah sebuah sinyal yang dikirimkan oleh otak kepada tubuh, agar kita beristirahat dan melepaskan diri sejenak dari segala pengaruh dan permasalahan dunia ini.”

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189. “Pada akhirnya, menulis itu adalah menemukan kembali apa yang pernah hilang, menghadirkan kembali apa yang sempat pergi, menggali apa yang sebelumnya terkubur, dan menghidupkan kembali apa yang semula mati.”

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190. “Seorang guru yang bijak tidak mendiktekan apa yang ia ketahui untuk ditiru oleh murid muridnya. Guru yang bijak tidak berhenti sebatas mentransfer pengetahuan dan kebajikan. Guru yang bijak membuka pintu cakrawala dan membimbing murid muridnya menentukan langkah, kemana mereka hendak menuju. Bukan atas kemauan gurunya, melainkan berdasar pertimbangan pikiran dan kemauan mereka sendiri.”

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191. “People who don’t like to read don’t know how to make sense of life through books.”

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192. “Hunger, pain, sorrow, suffering and death are facts. How we can feel and know that truth exists. As we also understand satiety, joy, health and happiness are real parts of life.”

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193. “I even want to deny that what is implied by a piece of reason in human free will have no meaning other than freedom itself. Freedom to think. Freedom to determine their own destiny.”

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194. “Your thoughts will only lead you astray, keep you away from the truth as long as you harden your heart from reality, that you are filled with limitations. And the hardness of your heart will make your soul fall in the abyss of destruction.”

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195. “Supaya engkau tahu, aku akan selalu mencintaimu. Itu pula sebabnya, aku membiarkan pintu itu tak pernah terkunci. Jadi seandainya engkau berniat pulang ke rumah, kau bisa masuk kapan saja.”

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196. “Ketika ia menulis, ia tidak sekadar menyusun kata kata. Ia berusaha menciptakan imajinasi dari bangunan kata kata yang ia inginkan. Seperti seorang arsitek yang menuangkan gagasannya lewat sebuah garis.”

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197. “Most people lie. Including when they think that nudity is something that is inappropriate and disgusting. Nudity in any condition always attracts attention, challenges and provokes curiosity. The problem is whether people want to admit that or not.”

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198. “Often we don’t realize how God has given us an extraordinary miracle, namely love that can touch anyone. Where there is love, that’s where the miracle happens.”

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199. “Clothing was created by shame. Shame to admit that we were actually born naked. Don’t we realize that clothes are the most obvious form of hypocrisy.”

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200. “A good writer, in my view, is a person who leaves a legacy for the world. Not only for the era of his own time but also for the era after him.”

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