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“The flowers that bloom in spring, the willows, the raindrops and snowflakes became shrines. The mornings ushering in each day, the evenings that daily darken, became shrines.”

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Book:Human Acts

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“After you died I couldn't hold a funeral, so my life became a funeral. After you were wrapped in a tarpaulin and carted away in a garbage truck. After sparkling jets of water sprayed unforgivably from the fountain. Everywhere the lights of the temple shrines are burning. In the flowers that bloom in spring, in the snowflakes. In the evenings that draw each day to a close. Sparks from the candles, burning in empty drinks bottles”

Human Acts Kang Han

Book:Human Acts

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“A scant hour's worth of silent despair, that was the last grace left to us as humans.”

Human Acts Kang Han

Book:Human Acts

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“That my life had been taken entirely out of my hands, and the only thing I was permitted to do now was to experience pain. Pain so intense I felt sure I was going to lose my mind, so horrific that I literally did lose control of my body, pissing and shitting myself.”

Human Acts Kang Han

Book:Human Acts

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“Every day without exception, those same questions niggled away at me: why did he die, while I'm still alive?”

Human Acts Kang Han

Book:Human Acts

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“And why does he talk so funny? Doesn't he mean squashed tomatoes? I don't think that they had tomatoes when he comes from, said Bod. And that's just how they talk then.”

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Book:The Graveyard Book

Source: The Graveyard Book

“I still remember the moment when my gaze fell upon the mutilated face of a young woman, her features slashed through with a bayonet. Soundlessly, and without fuss, some tender thing deep inside me broke. Something that, until then, I hadn't realised was there.”

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Book:Human Acts

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“A great paradox which should God make us understand, we will weep, laugh, wonder and ponder is the paradox of human ignorance”

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Author:Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Relax and return, not to the world inside your mind, but to you real world. The life you actually lived is more peaceful than what you imagined.”

Kim Soo Hyun

Book:I Decided to Live as Myself

Source: I Decided to Live as Myself

“The biggest tragedy of capitalism is that it regards talents that can’t be converted into money worthless.”

Kim Soo Hyun

Book:I Decided to Live as Myself

Source: I Decided to Live as Myself

“If I have to kneel, I’ll kneel. But I can get up again. If I keep getting up myself, a day will come when I wouldn’t have to kneel down anymore.”

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