The Mother
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I was not fair to my mother, she realised. Perhaps we never are. Mothers get the negative download their offspring dare not tell anyone else. There’s no need to charm your mother, she thought, which is both a compliment and a burden.
“We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses.”
― Modern Man in Search of a Soul
― Modern Man in Search of a Soul
“Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing”
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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