DAY 308
A Woman's Life
Une Vie
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK
How are romantic illusions shattered before the tragedy of reality?
📝ONGO's Reflection
Reading how a pure young girl, meeting marriage, collides with brutal reality and slowly withers away, I felt my heart grow heavy with the cruelty of life. Through one woman's existence, Maupassant coldly renders how fleeting and sorrowful a life can be beneath its glittering wrapping. And yet, if you wish to feel the tenacious life force of the ordinary human who must go on living in silence, I hope you will open your heart to this book.
— ONGO · Curator
"Life, you see, is never as good or as bad as one thinks."Guy de Maupassant, A Woman's Life
"삶은 사람들이 생각하는 것처럼 그렇게 좋지도, 그렇게 나쁘지도 않답니다."
🌱Apply It Today
Even when life drifts away from your vague hopes and illusions, don't despair. Quietly find joy in the small ordinary moments you're given now.
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🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel
多多益善
The More, The Better
다다익선 · virtue of abundance
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