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Hwang Bo-Reum
“Doing what you like doesn’t guarantee happiness. Unless you’re also in an excellent environment, then maybe. Sometimes, it’s the environment that’s more important. If you’re in an ill-suited environment, what you enjoy can become something you want to give up. What I’m saying is, not everyone fits into the mould of finding happiness just by discovering what they like. That’s too simplified, not to mention naive.”
Hwang Bo-reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

George Orwell
“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”
George Orwell, 1984

Hwang Bo-Reum
“Life is too complicated and expansive to be judged solely by the career you have. You could be unhappy doing something you liked, just as it was possible to do what you didn't like but derive happiness from something entirely different. Life is mysterious and complex. Work plays an important role in life, but it isn't solely responsible for our happiness or misery”
Hwang Bo-reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

Sally Rooney
“She believes Marianne lacks ‘warmth’, by which she means the ability to beg for love from people who hate her.”
Sally Rooney, Normal People

Jacqueline Harpman
“Perhaps you never have time when you are alone? You only acquire it by watching it go by in others".”
Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

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