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Orientalism

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"back on my BS" — May 26, 2026 04:37PM

May 26, 2026 04:37PM

“Why, you will go home and then you will find that home is not home any more. Then you will really be in trouble. As long as you stay here, you can always think: One day I will go home.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

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“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.”
― Miriam Adeney

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“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

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“Home is the first grave.”
― Fatimah Asghar

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“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

tags: burdens, memory, poems, poetry, remembering

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