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책들의 부엌

by Kim Jee Hye

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难哄 2

by Zhu Yi

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The Wizard's Bakery

by Gu Byeong-mo

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“It is right to seek peace for the dead. You and I both know there is no peace for those who live after.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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“We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.”
― M. Scott Peck

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“It was precisely these scenes he missed the most from his own life with Willem, the forgettable, in-between moments in which nothing seemed to be happening but whose absence was singularly unfillable.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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“Growing old does not make us any better at loving one another or understanding the meaning of life or death. Nor does knowledge come with the passage of time.”
― Kyung-sook Shin, I'll Be Right There

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