[A Sip of a Book] Advertiser Park Woonghyun's 'Sentences and Moments'

Some sentences encapsulate the entire content of a book, while others instantly resonate with the reader’s heart, creating a connection with the book. Here, we introduce such meaningful sentences excerpted from books. - Editor’s note

Park Woonghyun, an advertiser who not only underlines good sentences while reading but also personally notes down memorable sentences from books and printed words gathered from daily life. This book contains sentences he wrote and recorded himself, moments he paid attention to guided by those sentences, reflections on youth and aging, the strength to endure everyday life and attitudes toward living, and his perspective on art. This is the author’s first essay written directly by him, not a transcript of lectures or dialogues.

My goal is not to live a life searching for something sacred, but to live a life that makes each day given to me sacred.

Life never goes as planned. There is no life that hasn’t stepped on muddy ground, and only after much disappointment and many wounds do we finally enter maturity.

If you understand, you must act. When I live out what I have realized in life, can I then say that I truly know the sentence I have engraved? Perhaps that is what it truly means to read with your body. In that sense, reading a book, recording sentences, and repeatedly engraving them by hand on paper is the very first step.

I once wrote the copy “Age is just a number,” but now I also agree with the saying “You cannot fool age.” At some point in life, determination is necessary, and at another point, resignation is needed.

Sentences and Moments | Written by Park Woonghyun | IntiN | 208 pages | 18,000 KRW

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