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Hwang Bo-Reum
“Sometimes I think about how lucky it is that I enjoy the wind. When the evening breeze blows, I thank it for clearing up the stuffiness in me and letting me breathe easier.”
Hwang Bo-reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

Baltasar Gracián
“Many things that were something are nothing if left alone, and others that were nothing turn into much because we pay attention to them.”
Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

Baltasar Gracián
“Quit whilst fortune is smiling, as all good gamblers do. A graceful retreat is as important as a brave assault, safeguarding achievements once these are enough, and especially when they're more than enough.”
Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies

Hwang Bo-Reum
“Dissonance before moments of harmony makes the harmony sound beautiful. Just as harmony and dissonance exist side by side in music, life is the same. Because harmony is preceded by dissonance, that's why we think life's beautiful.”
Hwang Bo-reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“A people needs defeat just as an individual needs suffering and misfortune: they compel the deepening of the inner life and generate a spiritual upsurge.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

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