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“Fragments surface momentarily, only to disappear from whence they came.”

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Book:Human Acts

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“There was a sign for a music café, so I hastened up the stairs to the fifth floor, took a seat in the cavernous room, and ordered a coffee. I sat there stock-still until the waiter had set my coffee down in front of me and left me alone. The acoustics were excellent in such a large space, yet I was hardly aware of a single note. It was like being submerged in deep water.”

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Source: Human Acts

“The sun will soon be up. It will pulse gradually brighter, glaring fiercely down on the city it holds in its grip.”

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“Everything that has lost the life it once had will rapidly putrefy.”

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“How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms?”

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Source: Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

“A foul stench will waft in waves from every alley where rubbish has been dumped.”

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Book:Human Acts

Source: Human Acts

“To wrap them in the Taegukgi—we wanted to do that much for them, at least. We needed the national anthem for the same reason we needed the minute's silence. To make the corpses we were singing over into something more than butchered lumps of meat.”

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Book:Human Acts

Source: Human Acts

“The door leading back to that summer has been slammed shut; you've made sure of that. But that means that the way is also closed that might have led back to the time before. There is no way back to the world before the torture. No way back to the world before the massacre.”

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Book:Human Acts

Source: Human Acts

“Some weekend afternoon when the sun-drenched scene outside the window seems unusually still and Dong-ho's profile fits into your mind, mighn't the thing flickering in front of your eyes be what they call a soul? In the early hours of the morning, when dreams you can't remember have left your cheeks wet and the contours of that face jolt into an abrupt clarity, mighn't that wavering be a soul's emergence?”

Human Acts Kang Han

Book:Human Acts

Source: Human Acts

“Don't die. Just don't die.”

Human Acts Kang Han

Book:Human Acts

Source: Human Acts

“I can't get my head around why I didn't just call your name that day. Why I just came tottering on behind, struggling for breath and dumb as a mute. If I call your name next time, will you please just turn around? You don't need to say "Yes, Mum?" or anything like that. Just turn round so I can see you.”

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Book:Human Acts

Source: Human Acts