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“...I had been inhuman by obeying duty's voice. But I was now free to listen no longer, to no longer obey the voices that command us not to be human when we must.”
― David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black

“Back then, just the fact of living meant I wasn’t alone.”
― Bo-Young Kim, I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories

“Misfortune shouldn’t be a punishment, just as happiness shouldn’t be a reward.”
― Bo-Young Kim, I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories

“This is who we are as a species: We contain within ourselves both the possibility of murdering an old stranger for almost no reason—the capacity in Shakespeare’s Iago which Coleridge called “motiveless Malignity”—and we also contain the antidote to that disease—courage, selflessness, the willingness to risk oneself to help that old stranger lying on the ground.”
― Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder