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“Die besten Bücher, stellte er fest, sind die, die einem sagen, was man bereits weiß.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“청자가 보여 주는 습관적인 미소,
기습적인 질문, 들떠 있는 기분 등은
상대방의 말보다는 자신이 괜찮은 청자로
평가받는 것에 더 관심이 있다는 사실을
은연중에 드러내는 행위다.”
― 마이클 니콜스

“You may say that it was the book, but it’s how you read a book that is most valuable, rather than any power it might have itself.”
― Michiko Aoyama, What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

“Readers make their own personal connections to words, irrespective of the writer's intentions, and each reader gains something unique.”
― Michiko Aoyama, What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

“Life is such a strange thing, she thinks, once she has stopped laughing. Even after certain things have happened to them, no matter how awful the experience, people still go on eating and drinking, going to the toilet and washing themselves - living, in other words. And sometimes they even laugh out loud. And they probably have these same thoughts, too, and when they do it must make them cheerlessly recall all the sadness they'd briefly managed to forget.”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian