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The Vegetarian

by Han Kang

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“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“Human beings had created words to communicate with the dead, and with those yet unborn.”
― Shion Miura, The Great Passage

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“For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“The more you took a project to heart, the more your expectations of others on the team were bound to rise. The same way that if you loved someone, you wanted them to love you back.”
― Shion Miura, The Great Passage

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“It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.”
― Donna Tartt

tags: greek, psychology, secret-history

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