생각이 많으면 용기는 점점 사라진다. 그래서 그런가, 생각이 많은 난 용기가 참 없는 편이다. 특히, 누군가에게 마음을 표현해야 할 때 생각이 너무 많아서 결국 아무것도 얻지 못한다. 그래서 그냥 바라만 보게 되더라. 어쩌면 미루나무처럼 물끄러미 아무 쪽이나 바라만 보는 게 더 좋을지도 모르겠다. 평화가 더 좋은 때가 있는 거니까. - <그리다가, 뭉클>, 이기주 - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/39c2b01aeb2b4dbb - P137


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Activism isn’t reliable. It isn’t fast. It isn’t direct either, most of the time, even though the term direct action is used for that confrontation in the streets, those encounters involving lawbreaking and civil disobedience. - P64

Every act is an act of faith, because you don’t know what will happen. You just hope and employ whatever wisdom and experience seems most likely to get you there. - P64

Writing is lonely, it’s an intimate talk with the dead, with the unborn, with the absent, with strangers, with the readers who may never come to be and who even if they read you will do so weeks, years, decades later. - P65

An essay, a book, is one statement in a long conversation you could call culture or history; you are answering something or questioning something that may have fallen silent long ago, and the response to your words may come long after you’re gone and never reach your ears, if anyone hears you in the first place. - P65

After all, this is how it’s been for so many books that count, books that didn’t shake the world when they first appeared but blossomed later. This is a model for how indirect effect can be, how delayed, how invisible; no one is more hopeful than a writer, no one is a bigger gambler. - P65

Thought becomes action becomes the order of things, but no straight road takes you there. - P65

Nobody can know the full consequences of their actions, and history is full of small acts that changed the world in surprising ways. - P66

There too, as in peace marches, just walking became a form of political speech, one whose directness was a delight after all the usual avenues of politicking: sitting in front of computers, going to meetings, making phone calls, dealing with money. - P66

Arundhati Roy wrote a ravishing novel, The God of Small Things, that catapulted her to international stardom, perhaps so that when she stood up to oppose dams and corporations and corruption and the destruction of the local, people would notice. - P67

Resistance is usually portrayed as a duty, but it can be a pleasure, an education, a revelation. - P68

Dante is told by God what the secret purpose of his life and work was. "Dante, in wonderment, knew at last who and what he was and blessed the bitterness of his life." - P69

One day in Auschwitz, the writer Primo Levi recited a canto of Dante’s Inferno to a companion, and the poem about hell reached out from six hundred years before to roll back Levi’s despair and his dehumanization. - P69

"Every line we succeed in publishing today—no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust it—is a victory wrenched from the powers of darkness." - P69

This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed, but a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. - P70

History, in Benjamin’s version, is a being to whom things happen, a creature whose despairing lineaments are only redeemed by the sublimity of the imagery. It’s not hard to imagine why Benjamin would picture a tragic, immobilized history, for the storm of the Third Reich was upon him when he wrote his "Theses," and it would destroy him later that year. - P70

And tragedy is seductive. After all, it is beautiful. Survival is funny. It’s the former that makes the greatest art. But I want to propose another angel, a comic angel, the Angel of Alternate History. - P70


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반포대교와 잠수교가 보이는 한강 둔치에서 세상을 소박하고 천진난만하게 바라본다. 어떤 상황에 담겨있는 무거운 맥락을 읽으려 하지 않아도 되고 직유니 은유니 담겨있는 그 사람 말속의 뼈를 찾지 않아도 되는 이 미칠 듯 가벼운 순간을 나는 ‘멍때린다’고 말한다. - <그리다가, 뭉클>, 이기주 - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/39c2b01aeb2b4dbb - P101

두 개의 평행한 직선은 면을 만들어.
아주 올곧고 시원한 길이 되는 거지.
나는 나만 생각하고 너는 너만 생각하면서 같이 걷는 거야.
덜컹거리는 돌짝밭 시골길이라도 함께 걸으면 좋은 거니까. - <그리다가, 뭉클>, 이기주 - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/39c2b01aeb2b4dbb - P109

서글픔은 아픔과는 다르다. 아픔은 마음의 통증이지만 서글픔은 쓸쓸함이라는 성분의 호르몬과 같은 것. 마음이 아픔을 방어하기 위한 일종의 방어막이다. - <그리다가, 뭉클>, 이기주 - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/39c2b01aeb2b4dbb - P111

사람도 마찬가지. 대화를 하다 보면 겹겹이 생각이 다양하고 나의 말을 받아주는 그릇이 깊어서 어디까지 들어가는지 모르게 푹 빠지게 하는 사람이 있다. 나는 이런 사람을 소실점이 있는 사람이라고 부른다. 모든 생각과 행동이 한 개의 점으로 모여 분명하고 단호한 모습이지만 끝을 알 수 없는 깊이감이 충만해서 뭐든 담아낼 수 있는 사람. 아, 이런 사람이 너무 좋다.
나는 어떤 사람일까? - <그리다가, 뭉클>, 이기주 - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/39c2b01aeb2b4dbb - P115

이런 생각을 했다. 골목길 같은 이 정도의 거리감이나 규모감처럼 살면 좋겠다고. 더 가까워지려 하거나 더 높아지려 하지 말자고 생각했다. 이제는 사람 사이에도 적당한 거리와 적당한 높이가 필요하다는 생각이다. - <그리다가, 뭉클>, 이기주 - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/39c2b01aeb2b4dbb - P119

오늘의 실수한 선을 지우지 않는다. 내일 그어질 선은 좀 더 곧게 그어질 거니까. 인생 참 그림 같아서 재미있다. - <그리다가, 뭉클>, 이기주 - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/39c2b01aeb2b4dbb - P127

인생의 황금기는 바로 지금 ‘나의 시간’이라는 것에 깊이 공감하기도 했다. 이 영화를 본 뒤로는 뭐 니나 내나 다 똑같다고 여기며 산다. - <그리다가, 뭉클>, 이기주 - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/39c2b01aeb2b4dbb - P128

살아보면 의외로 간단해도 되는 게 많더라. 그림 그리다 인생을 배운다. - <그리다가, 뭉클>, 이기주 - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/39c2b01aeb2b4dbb - P130


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[전자책] 작별하지 않는다
한강 지음 / 문학동네 / 2021년 9월
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<채식주의자>의 심미성과 <소년이 온다>의 역사성이 함께 한, 마치 삼부작의 완결판 같다.

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It was moving and disconcerting to realize that these experiences—the experience of democracy and of citizenship—were so unusual and so desired. - P57

A new imagination of politics and change is already here, and I want to try to pare away what obscures it. - P59

The dream did not last, though the moment is worth cherishing. - P59

History is made out of common dreams, ground-swells, turning points, watersheds—it’s a landscape more complicated than commensurate cause and effect, and that peace movement came out of causes with roots reaching far beyond and long before Bush. - P60

Activism is not a journey to the corner store, it is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark. - P60

But life is never so tidy and final. Only death is. - P61


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