I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
Young-ha Kim
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.”
“Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.”
“There are only two ways to be a god: through creation or murder.”
“People who don’t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don’t know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life.”
“Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place?”
“I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence.”
“And still everything’s the same, even though I did my best to get as far away as I could.”
“People unconsciously want to reveal their inner urges.”
“A revolution cannot progress without the fuel of terror. With time that relationship inverts: the revolution presses forward for the sake of terror. Like an artist, the man creating terror should be detached, cold-blooded. He must keep in mind that the energy of the terror he releases can consume him.”
“The present is re-created to immortalize memories. It's pathetic, but that's human tendency now.”
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