Prabowo Subianto on Indonesia’s underperformed GDP:
“Kita harus introspeksi, sadar, dan berani bertanya: kenapa kita tidak bisa mengelola ekonomi kita sehingga pendapatan negara kita bisa setara dengan negara seperti Filipina dan Meksiko? Apa yang menyebabkan kita tidak mampu? Bedanya apa kita dengan orang Malaysia, orang Kamboja, atau orang Filipina?”
And perhaps that is the most humiliating species of yearning ... to not to crave what is good, but to kneel willingly before what wounds you, praying the wound might, for one blessed instant, resemble love.
I had long since ceased to distinguish between devotion and starvation. A beggar learns quickly that hunger is a merciless theologian, it sanctifies even the foulest offerings if they promise a momentary deliverance from the ache within the ribs.
For famine makes gluttons of the lonely. It teaches the body to swallow shards as though they were feast-born delicacies, to mistake suffering for nourishment merely because something—anything—has finally touched the tongue.