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Dalam kalimat ketjil seperti: Sekali berarti, sudah itu mati — kita bisa djalin-anjamkan seluruh tudjuan hidup kita.

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The sentence presents life in a stark sequence: it becomes meaningful, and then it ends in death. Its brevity is part of its force. A few words can hold both the value we give to living and the final limit that gives the statement its complete shape.

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Brill, scholarly study citing Chairil Anwar’s Pidato 1943
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