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"But even Plato knew that class and conditioning and so forth have an inalterable effect on the individual. It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate."

"Many a choice is made in this way; by pretending it makes itself.
And many a fate is decided by those who cannot decide. "

She would always feel that she was special because she loved someone everyone else hated(...)He wanted to spare her the cruelty of what he had learned, because she would not believe she was no different than her parents, that seeing him as only Korean–good or bad– was the same as seeing him only as a bad Korean. She could not see his humanity, and Noa realized this was what he wanted most of all: to be seen as human.

"He didn’t so much teach them how to write poetry, they said, but why: because of delight. Because of stubborn gladness. He told them that they must live their most creative lives as a means of fighting back against the ruthless furnace of this world."