Pramoedya Ananta Toer citations

“At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates.”

“Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.”

“The fracture of pencil still useful, but the fracture of soul,
we couldn't use it, Mister.”

“Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act.”

“Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.”

“You must first of all think justly. Don’t sit in judgment over others when you don’t know the truth of the matter.”