Quotations From MULTATULI [EDUARD DOUWER DEKKER]

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• 1.

  Perhaps nothing is entirely true, not even this.

  Multatuli [Eduard Douwer Dekker] (1820-1887), Dutch writer, civil servant. The Oyster and the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli (1872), trans. by E. M. Beekman, U of Mass. Press (1974).
• 2.

  Seen from the moon we are all the same size.

  Multatuli [Eduard Douwer Dekker] (1820-1887), Dutch writer, civil servant. "Idee 155," The Oyster and the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli (1872), trans. by E. M. Beekman, U of Mass. Press (1974).
  
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• 3.

  Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end.

  Multatuli [Eduard Douwer Dekker] (1820-1887), Dutch writer, civil servant. "Idee 157," The Oyster and the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli (1872), trans. by E. M. Beekman, U of Mass. Press (1974).
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  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.

  Multatuli [Eduard Douwer Dekker] (1820-1887), Dutch writer, civil servant. "Idee 263," The Oyster and the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli (1872), trans. by E. M. Beekman, U of Mass. Press (1974).
  
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  Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.

  Multatuli [Eduard Douwer Dekker] (1820-1887), Dutch writer, civil servant. "Idee 2," The Oyster and the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli (1872), trans. by E. M. Beekman, U of Mass. Press (1974).
  
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• 6.

  There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.

  Multatuli [Eduard Douwer Dekker] (1820-1887), Dutch writer, civil servant. "Idee 450," The Oyster and the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli (1872), trans. by E. M. Beekman, U of Mass. Press (1974).
  
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• 7.

  Principles are things which one calls upon to avoid something unpleasant.

  Multatuli [Eduard Douwer Dekker] (1820-1887), Dutch writer, civil servant. "Idee 303," The Oyster and the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli (1872), trans. by E. M. Beekman, U of Mass. Press (1974).
• 8.

  It's unfair of a circle to accuse the angle of being sharp.

  Multatuli [Eduard Douwer Dekker] (1820-1887), Dutch writer, civil servant. "Idee 90," The Oyster and the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli (1872), trans. by E. M. Beekman, U of Mass. Press (1974).