Top 250 Titon Rahmawan Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Our biggest mistake is that we always think that we are the subject of that truth. We feel as the origin of truth. When in fact we are just a jug in the hand of the craftsman. Without the presence of the craftsman, we are just a lump of clay which has no meaning.”

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202. “Try to explain to me, what is the difference between serving a man in a marriage and serving many men in a prostitution? The only difference is the status in society. Marriage is prostitution legalized as an exclusivity for men.”

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203. “You can only accept the happiness that truth presents as a gift. There is no way he could exist of your own accord. It is like a pitcher which cannot be created without the will and intention of the craftsman. That revival will come to you and not the other way around. Even if you can build a thousand towers to climb up to reach the sky. It is too high for you to reach, and too far for you to pursue.”

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204. “Kegagalan yang seringkali membayang bayangi seorang penulis adalah ketidak mampuannya memprioritaskan pengalaman dan keterlibatan emosional pembaca atas karya yang ia tulis di atas kepentingannya sendiri. Kagagalan terjadi tatkala sang penulis tak mampu melepaskan diri dari beban egoismenya untuk tampil dan menyuarakan dirinya sendiri. Cerita yang baik tidaklah demikian. Cerita yang baik menciptakan jarak antara jati diri si penulis dengan watak dan karakter tokoh tokoh yang ia ciptakan.”

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205. “I know what is hidden in the minds of men. They only want a respectable woman to be their life partner. But at the same time, he wanted her to be his prostitute whenever he wanted. A prostitute to himself exclusively. Because their egos as men do not allow them to share with others.”

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206. “The only way is not humans to come to find the truth. Because if so, then they will get lost. How can humans find what they don’t know? Therefore, humans are only possible to let the truth come knocking on the door so that they get enlightenment. They become blessed. Not by his own will, but because of the desire of the truth itself.”

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207. “How can my limited humanity bring me to the truth? How can I find truth that I never knew?”

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208. “Di angkringan malam itu, kita tak duduk berhadapan tapi bersisian. Kau bilang tak ingin difoto, karena merasa lagi jelek. Namun bagiku, kau selalu memesona seperti biasa. Meskipun langit sedikit mendung, meskipun cuma cahaya lampu senthir yang remang remang menerangi wajahmu. Malam mulai beranjak tua dan ada gurat usia yang makin menebal di wajah kita. Namun aku merasa, selalu ada cinta yang sama untukmu, yang aku tahu tidak akan pernah berubah.”

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209. “Bahkan seorang penulis, bila ia benar benar serius menyikapi status kepenulisannya harus membiasakan diri untuk ditolak. Ini tidak lebih buruk dari seorang pedagang yang cuma berhasil menjual satu barang setelah melewati setidaknya 100 kali penolakan.”

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210. “But it is precisely because you are stupid and full of limitations then you know how to distinguish between hunger and fullness. How can you feel full, if you don’t know what it feels like to be hungry?”

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

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212. “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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213. “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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214. “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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215. “Tell me, do you think there is a crumb of ignorance in a loaf of wisdom bread?”

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216. “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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217. “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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218. “Tak hendak lengan sentuh gemintang, kalau tak engkau rentangkan sayap.”

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219. “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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220. “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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221. “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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222. “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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223. “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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224. “Aku akan terus terkenang dan berterimakasih kepada guru guruku. Karena tanpa mereka, aku tidak akan mungkin menjadi diriku yang sekarang.”

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225. “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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226. “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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227. “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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228. “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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229. “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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230. “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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231. “The advantage of a fiction is that it can present the truth through lies.”

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

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234. “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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235. “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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236. “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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237. “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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238. “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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239. “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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240. “Enjoying life does not have to do extraordinary things by spending a lot of money. Spending a quality time together with our loved ones is the best way to enjoy life.”

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241. “What are you worried about, buddy? Isn’t death just a door to immortality?”

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242. “Saya tak membutuhkan drama. Saya tak membutuhkan keruwetan, komplikasi, friksi, konflik dan terutama air mata.”

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243. “Tuhan ada dalam hembusan nafas para penulis. Tuhan ada dalam setiap goresan penanya.”

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244. “The sadness within ourselves should teach us to be empathetic, that there is the sadness of others who may be so much bigger than ours, that we cannot even bear it.”

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245. “God is in the breath of the writers. God is in every stroke of the pen.”

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246. “The fact that doesn’t surprise me at all is that countless men I know don’t use their brains to think. I almost felt sure, that they really were brainless. Even if they may have brains, they don’t use them to think. It seems that their thoughts are not controlled by their brains but by what they store in their groins.”

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247. “Truth may just come down as a gift or a blessing. Human weakness and ignorance that prevents them from reaching the essence of truth.”

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248. “Bukan dunia di luar dirimu yang bisa membuat hidupmu bahagia, melainkan penerimaan dan sikapmu pada dirimu sendiri. Tidak ada seorang pun yang bisa menggantikan dirimu menanggung penderitaan dan kesusahan. Dan demikian pula, tidak ada orang lain yang bertanggung jawab atas kebahagianmu selain dari dirimu sendiri. Sebab surga atau neraka itu hadir bukan sekedar sebagai sebuah ganjaran, melainkan sebagai konsekuensi dari pilihan hidup kita sendiri.”

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249. “Kadang kadang ia tidak menulis sendirian. Seperti orang kesurupan dan ruh ruh yang ia sebut sebagai entitas itu merasukinya. Merekalah yang kemudian menuliskan huruf demi huruf itu hingga menjadi sebuah kata. Dan merangkai kata demi kata itu hingga membentuk sebuah kalimat dan lalu menghubungkan paragraf demi paragraf hingga membentuk sebuah cerita yang utuh.”

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250. “You deserve what you really stand for, not what you want. This applies to everything including love.”

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