Multatuli
Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 1820 – 19 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tuli, "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel Max Havelaar 1860, which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia).
Quotes
[edit]- Maybe nothing is completely true, and not even that.
- Multatuli, Ideeën
- One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture
- Multatuli, Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
- I would like to meet myself sometime to see how I would look to myself. But I'd have to be in an extremely good state of mind on such a day, because I don't like unpleasantness.
- Multatuli, The Oyster and the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables
- The entire morality of the world could be summarized in the words, do as others do.
- Multatuli, The Oyster and the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables
- Since I have the obligation to take care of the needs of my family, I have decided to use a talent which, I believe, has been given to me. I am a poet… Phew! You know, reader, what I and all sensible people think about that.
- Multatuli, Max Havelaar, Ch. 3, p. 44
