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1 " Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting. "
― Kim Young-ha , I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
2 " Art is about going a little nuts and justifying the next sentence. "
― Kim Young-ha
3 " Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic. "
4 " People want to understand evil. A pointless desire. Evil is like a rainbow. It retreats at the same pace as your approach. Evil is evil because you can't understand it. "
― Kim Young-ha , Diary of a Murderer: And Other Stories
5 " Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place? "
6 " There are only two ways to be a god: through creation or murder. "
7 " 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. "
8 " 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. "
9 " And still everything’s the same, even though I did my best to get as far away as I could. "
10 " People unconsciously want to reveal their inner urges. "
11 " Life is a continuous cycle of once-terrifying things becoming normal. "
― Kim Young-ha , Your Republic Is Calling You
12 " 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. "
13 " The present is re-created to immortalize memories. It's pathetic, but that's human tendency now. "
14 " 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 they know such introspection, though painful, is secretly exhilarating. And if someone asks me the kind of question I myself might pose, I can tell he's lonely. "
15 " It’s funny, the truth makes people uncomfortable, but a lie gets people excited. Isn’t that right? "
16 " La muerte se ha transformado en una especie de pornografía que se transmite en vivo por televisión. La masacre que en el pasado se difundía en forma de rumor, ahora se emite rápida y detalladamente vía satélite. Nadie se estremece viendo pornografía. "
17 " But no matter how you die, the world always stays the same. "
18 " An artist's passion shouldn't create passion. An artist's supreme virtue is to be detached and cold. "
19 " Then again, there are at least a few things in life you can't learn from others. "
20 " There isn’t much I do well. I excel at only one thing, but it’s the kind I can’t brag about. Think of the countless people who end up in the grave proud of something they can never share with others. "
