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Han Kang

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[Wikipedia] Han Kang is a South Korean writer. From 2007 to 2018, she taught creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Han rose to international prominence for her novel The Vegetarian, which became the first Korean language novel to win the International Booker Prize for fiction in 2016. Han is the

Quotes by Han Kang

“It's your body, you can treat it however you please. The only area where you're free to do just as you like.”

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“After you were lost to us, all our hours declined into evening. Evening are our streets and our houses. In this half-light…

Light

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“Now and then, all of this struck me as being not so much ridiculous as faintly ominous. What if, by chance, these…

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“After you died I couldn't hold a funeral, So these eyes that once beheld you became a shrine. These ears that once…

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“If only one’s eyes weren’t visible to others, she thinks. If only one could hide one’s eyes from the world.”

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“She had believed in her own inherent goodness, her humanity, and lived accordingly, never causing anyone harm. Her devotion to doing things…

Doing things

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“It seemed enough for her to just deal with whatever it was that came her way, calmly and without fuss.”

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“The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never…

Children

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“Looking at herself in the mirror, she never forgot that death was hovering behind that face. Faint yet tenacious, like black writing…

Death

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“I don’t know you,” she muttered, tightening her grip on the receiver, which she’d hung back in the cradle but was still…

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“Bearing that in mind, the question which remains to us is this: what is humanity? What do we have to do to…

Nature of man

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“I never let myself forget that every single person I meet is a member of this human race.”

Human race

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“Sand And she frequently forgot, That her body (all our bodies) is a house of sand. That it had shattered and is…

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“Breath-cloud. On cold mornings, that first white cloud of escaping breath is proof that we are living. Proof of our bodies’ warmth.…

Cold air

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“The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never…

Children

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“I'm fighting alone, every day. I fight with the hell that I survived. I fight with the fact of my own humanity.…

Death

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“White hair. She remembers one of her bosses, a middle-aged man who used to say how he longed to see a former…

Desire

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“Some memories never heal. Rather than fading with the passage of time, those memories become the only things that are left behind…

Healing

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