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“Places are like kingdoms of memories and relationships; that the landscape is only ever a reflection of how you feel inside.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“I kept looking forward the answer to things. I kept looking, and I never saw, and I became lost. I lost myself, lost my own reality.”
― Ben Okri, Astonishing the Gods

“[...] she was able to combine women's extreme ego suppression and ancient female shamanism, showing both in opposition to men.
In our own day, shamanism seems to have withered and died. Yet does it not, on second thought, offer a partial explanation of the power women still have over men? Perhaps it is true, as Buddhism teaches us, that this power constitutes woman's greatest burden and delusion -- and ultimately her greatest sin. But the sin is inseparable from a woman's being. It is a stream of blood flowing on and on, unbroken, from generation to generation.
Just as there is an archetype of woman as the object of man's eternal love, so there must be an archetype of her as the object of his eternal fear, representing, perhaps, the shadow of his own evil actions. The Rokujō lady is an embodiment of this archetype.”
― Fumiko Enchi, Masks