Multatuli Quotes

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  • Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end.

    Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.61, Univ of Massachusetts Press
  • Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.

    Truth   Two   Half  
    Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.48, Univ of Massachusetts Press
  • It's unfair of a circle to accuse the angle of being sharp.

    Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.54, Univ of Massachusetts Press
  • There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it.

    Truth   Poetry   Doe  
  • One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture.

    Life Is   Hell   Shame  
    "Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company". Novel by Multatuli, 1860.
  • Endeavour-with most diligent labour, O aspiring artist!-to master content. The form will rise to meet you.

    Artist   Endeavour   Form  
  • There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.

    Heart   Evil   Sin  
  • Principles are things which one calls upon to avoid something unpleasant.

    Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.80, Univ of Massachusetts Press
  • Seen from the moon we are all the same size.

    Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.61, Univ of Massachusetts Press
  • Perhaps nothing is entirely true, not even this.

    Truth  
    Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.48, Univ of Massachusetts Press
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