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“Looking around the fancily decorated exhibition hall, I could see how obsessed humanity had been with living forever and how this obsession had continued from the dawn of history to today, which was awe-inspiring on one hand and, I don’t know, pitiable on the other, a complicated combination of emotions.”
― Bora Chung, Your Utopia

“The average life span can’t be the yardstick against which to measure an old person’s health. The increase in average life expectancy is merely due to the ability of science and medicine to delay death. As the focus is on prolonging life without having fully considered its quality, an old person living in a society with an average life span of one hundred years is like a prophetic shaman who forgets to include “pretty and young” when praying for eternal life and forever ends up with a wrinkly face and a hunched back.”
― Gu Byeong-mo, The Old Woman with the Knife

“What I never could forget are the feelings I had in certain moments. Even when memories, logic, and reason all disappear, those feelings will remain to the end.”
― Bora Chung, Your Utopia

“The more high-ranking and powerful a client is and the more the target is someone with influence, the more the “whys” are left out when a disease control specialist comes on board.”
― Gu Byeong-mo, The Old Woman with the Knife