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Is this the light of the mind? Is this the light of my mind?
“There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.”
― Wide Sargasso Sea
― Wide Sargasso Sea
“Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.”
― The Time Machine
― The Time Machine
“I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.”
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“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.”
― Wide Sargasso Sea
― Wide Sargasso Sea
Samantha’s 2025 Year in Books
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