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“Trying, he thought, to express some unutterable truth about themselves. Which was that translation was impossible. That the realm of pure meaning they captured and manifested would and could not ever be known. That the enterprise of this tower had been impossible from inception. For how could there ever be an Adamic language? The thought now made him laugh. There was no innate, perfectly comprehensible language. There was no candidate - not English, not French - that could bully and absorb enough to become one. Language was just difference. A thousand different ways of seeing, of moving through the world. No, a thousand worlds within one. And translation, a necessary endeavor however futile, to move between them.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“To me, that’s like being asked, Why do you live? Do you live for any purpose? Let’s be honest, we just live because we’re alive.”
― Won-pyung Sohn, Almond

“Bearing that in mind, the question which remains to us is this: what is humanity? What do we have to do to keep humanity as one thing and not another?”
― Han Kang, Human Acts

“Dong-ho, I need you to take my hand and guide me away from all this. Away to where the light shines through, to where the flowers bloom.”
― Han Kang, Human Acts