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“The streetlamp's feeble glow encases it in a lead-gray aureole, but beyond the reach of its light the night is pitch black. It isn't safe to stray beyond the bounds of this lit place. You do not know what might be lurking in the darkness.”

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“Living alone means there's no need to consider whether you'll be waking another person up, so you walk straight over to the door and switch on the light. You switch on all the lights, in the bathroom, the kitchen, the entrance hall, and fill a glass with cold water, your hand trembling only very slightly, and drink.”

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“You understand that he is thinking of the meager pay, the laborious, irregular duties that are never sufficiently recompensed, your bony hands with their protruding veins running along the backs.”

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“Overwhelmed with exhaustion, you bow your head.”

Human Acts Kang Han

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“You raise your head and smile in the way you always do when you cannot think of an appropriate reply.”

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“Up Rising You're not like me, Seong-hee. You believe in a divine being, and in this thing we call humanity. You never did manage to win me over. I could never believe in the existence of a being who watches over us with consummate love. I couldn't even make it through the Lord's Prayer without the words drying up in my throat. Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. I forgive no one, and no one forgives me.”

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“She had no faith in humanity. The look in someone's eyes, the beliefs they espoused, the eloquence with which they did so, were, she knew, no guarantee of anything She knew that the only life left to her was one hemmed in by niggling doubts and cold questions.”

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“The scent of lotion that rose faintly from the direction of my sleeping sister, mingled with menthol from the pain-relieving patches she applied to her aching shoulders and back.”

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“The grasshoppers in the yard, their faint, almost soundless cries.”

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“Were these the souls of those bodies whose clothes were roughly torn, who bore deep purple bruises beneath each fingernail?”

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