“I, a simple being
will not envy what I am not
weather their cold stares
so as to live
as I have lived as myself”
― 나는 나로 살기로 했다
will not envy what I am not
weather their cold stares
so as to live
as I have lived as myself”
― 나는 나로 살기로 했다
“Everywhere around them, life was happening without their knowing, and their lives were also happening in the presence of all else. All existences were touching lightly as air and leaving invisible fingerprints.”
― Beasts of a Little Land
― Beasts of a Little Land
“I never let myself forget that every single person I meet is a member of this human race. And that includes you, professor, listening to this testimony. As it includes myself.”
― Human Acts
― Human Acts
“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?”
― Human Acts
― Human Acts
“Anni, amori e bicchieri di vino, nun se contano mai.”’ ‘“Years, lovers and glasses of wine; these things must not be counted.”
― The Food of Love
― The Food of Love
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