Multatuli Quotes

Dutch author (1820-1887)

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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).

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Alternative Names: Eduard Douwes Dekker

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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.

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.

One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture

Maybe nothing is completely true, and not even that.

The entire morality of the world could be summarized in the words, do as others do.