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“Burdened by nightmares and insomnia, numbed by painkillers and sleeping pills, we were no longer young. There was no longer anyone who would worry over us or shed tears over our pitiful lot. We even despised ourselves.”

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Book:Human Acts

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“Looking at that boy's life, Jin-su said, what is this thing we call a soul? Just some nonexistent idea? Or something that might as well not exist? Or no, is it like a kind of glass? Glass is transparent, right? And fragile. That's the fundamental nature of glass. And that's why objects that are made of glass have to be handled with care. After all, if they end up smashed or cracked or chipped, then they're good for nothing, right, you just have to chuck them away. Before, we used to have a kind of glass that couldn't be broken. A truth so hard and clear it might as well have been made of glass. So when you think about it, it was only when we were shattered that we proved we had souls. That what we really were was humans made of glass.”

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“Of course, he and I were close in some senses, but think about it; how close could we really have been? Yes, we relied on each other, but we also wanted to smash each other's face in. To erase each other's very existence. To thrust each other permanently out of sight.”

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“...with such a uniform brutality it's as though it is imprinted in our genetic code.”

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“One of the schools in Tlön has reached the point of denying time. It reasons that the present is undefined, that the future has no other reality than as present hope, that the past is no more than present memory.”

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“I wait for time to wash me away like muddy water. I wait for death to come and wash me clean, to release me from the memory of those other, squalid deaths, which haunt my days and nights.”

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“Seong-hee was twenty, and her romantic nature was frequently fed by poetry.”

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“An eye cold and pale as ice, looking down on you from the center of the black sky.”

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“Footsteps, so quiet as to be almost imperceptible. Two feet marking time with the lightest of treads, like a child learning a new and difficult dance.”

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“I felt a knot of pain tightening in my solar plexus. I couldn't tell whether it was fear I was experiencing, or happiness.”

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“Then there'd be another round of disciplinary beatings, and woe betide anyone who did anything other than cover in absolute silence.”

Human Acts Kang Han

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