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“Personally I take more satisfaction in understanding people than in passing judgement on them.”
― Chess Story
― Chess Story
“Sometimes I think about how lucky it is that I enjoy the wind. When the evening breeze blows, I thank it for clearing up the stuffiness in me and letting me breathe easier.”
― Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
― Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
“I finally grasped the machinations and subtext of that phrase the year I turned twenty-five. When you begin to wonder if life is really just waiting for buses on Tottenham Court Road and ordering books you'll never read off Amazon; in short, you are having an existential crisis. You are realizing the mundanity of life. You are finally understanding how little point there is to anything. You are moving out of the realm of fantasy 'when I grow up' and adjusting to the reality that you're there; it's happening. And it wasn't what you thought it might be. You are not who you thought you'd be.
Once you starting digging a hole of those questions, it's very difficult to take the day-to-day functionalities of life seriously.”
― Everything I Know About Love
Once you starting digging a hole of those questions, it's very difficult to take the day-to-day functionalities of life seriously.”
― Everything I Know About Love
“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― Babel
― Babel
“And maybe I will live a happier, wilder, more colourful and unpredictable life if I can finally abandon the debilitating and brutal pursuit of perfection. If I can learn to love butterflies from afar, and watch them fly away.”
― The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and the Glory of Growing Up
― The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and the Glory of Growing Up
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