To Park, being "learned" isn't about formal education or status but about having a certain leisurely attitude toward things one encounters, having the mental and emotional margin to be able to observe without projecting.
—Park Jiwon, Preface to Collected Poems of Neungyang, as paraphrased by Hannah Kim
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Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy.
—Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or
