Minsuk Kang 강민석
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Minsuk Kang 강민석
Like human happiness, teenage happiness does not flourish when everyone has the freedom to live just as they please. Where there is neither order nor necessity in life—no constraints, no inhibitions, no discomfort—life becomes both relaxing and boring, as American philosopher Allan Bloom notes. A soft imprisonment.
Ruby LaRocca • A Constitution for Teenage Happiness
I want to believe that life has more to offer than other people’s empty daydreams, and I don’t want to spend my time sapping time from others. I have to have my grandiose ideals about storytelling, even if I’m not sure I’ll create stories that are really worth telling, because I can’t be excited about anything less. I don’t want to be in the busine... See more
I want to love fiction
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Quiet Reading
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“What tormented Ivan Ilyich most,” Tolstoy writes, “was the deception, the lie, which for some reason they all accepted, that he was not dying but was simply ill, and he only need keep quiet and undergo a treatment and then something very good would result.
Excerpt From Being Mortal Atul Gawande
What if fart didn't smell?
Koreans have elected emperors for more than 50 years and now they think they can point guns at people who don’t listen to them.