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Two Stories

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North Korea's Organization and Guidance Department: The Control Tower of Human Rights Denial

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“Daarna dacht ik aan de temperatuur van het zeewater en hoe lang het zou duren voordat een hart stil zou staan van de kou. De onderkoelingsdood schijnt bijzonder hoog te staan in de topvijf van de prettigste manieren om te sterven. Het is mij een raadsel aan wie ze dit hebben kunnen vragen.”
― Arjen Lubach, Mensen die ik ken die mijn moeder hebben gekend

tags: black-humor, humor, top5

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“Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe. I will never truly be free of its gravity, no matter how far I journey.”
― Hyeonseo Lee

tags: defector, inspirational, memoir, north-korea, north-korean-famine

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“Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.”
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“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ”
― Epictetus

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“It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

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