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“Humans each carry their own ruin within them

I believe that a person’s ruin is what shapes the totality of who they are

No one wants others to wander in and out of their ruin

But there is one exception

A person in love will walk into the other’s ruin without hesitation

And the weight of the ruin they enter is immense

They must stay with it

Or become its protector

Or at times heal it

Or die with it”

An excerpt from Beautiful Shade (아름다운 그늘), 1995, Shin Kyung Sook