199 Quotes by Titon Rahmawan

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.

The burden of desire makes man a slave of his own will.

For some people to apologize may be enough, but not to me. For me, just apologizing is not enough until they really change.

In the eyes of people, I might not be loyal to one guy. Because my loyalty is not to men, but to my own principles. And that's what keeps me going. Not just surviving as a human. I guess that's what makes me so loved. In fact, not by just one man.

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.

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.

Fiction is a chaotic world, often grungy and disgusting. But here I am free to be what or who. Free to do anything. With the most ridiculous thoughts and the most absurd actions. I can live and die many times. Almost without limitation. I don't even need a reason. Because here I am free to create my own world. I just need to keep a little distance from the reality that is out there.

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

The heaviest burden of our human side is not sin. Because heaven or hell is a choice that we create ourselves. The heaviest burden of our humanity is the ego. how can we defeat and subdue the personal ego. Sin is just a condition and consequence of the wrong life choices. It is impossible for us to separate that consequences from the interests of our personal egos.