> “Why, God, must I have a conscience that pricks and pains me so? I wish to live.”
>Reading these sentences, I knew with the clarity of lightning which way the novel must go. And that my two questions had to be reversed.

> Can the past help the present?
> Can the dead save the living?

> Later, as I was writing what would become Human Acts, I sensed at certain moments that the past was indeed helping the present, and that the dead were saving the living...
- https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2024/han/lecture/

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