"Women who have been disappeared by violence are howling. The voices of disappeared women are echoing. I sing with these voices."

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Kim Hyesoon

#Voice Quotes #Violence Quotes #Has Beens Quotes

“I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.”
“I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,-that history is philosophy teaching by examples.”

Source : "Letters on the study and use of history" by Henry St. John Bolingbroke, (letter 2), 1752.
“I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.”
“And my piece of advice is...don't flirt with any of the female instructors. They all have access to weapons bigger than yours.”
“I've been so blessed. If someone asked me whom I would choose to be if I could come back in another life, I would have to say Shirley Temple Black. I cannot think of a more interesting life to ask for.”
“Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.”
“Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.”
“Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.”

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