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“But I never did try very hard to please my mother. In fact, I never tried hard to please anybody at all after that day in the locked room. Now I only try hard to please myself. That is all that matters here. That is the secret thing I found.”
― Homesick for Another World
― Homesick for Another World
“If you want something and can't have it, want something else. Want what you deserve. You'll probably get it.”
― Homesick for Another World
― Homesick for Another World
“Consciousness is like the moment of awakening from a deep dream: we remember only fragments and feelings, but know with serene certainty that there was more that we have forgotten.”
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“And anyway, there is no comfort here on Earth. There is pretending, there are words, but there is no peace. Nothing is good here. Nothing. Every place you go on Earth, there is more nonsense.”
― Homesick for Another World
― Homesick for Another World
“The task of the mind, the human intellect, is not only to see through or see beyond what is apparent. It is to make the apparent transparent.”
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Erika’s 2025 Year in Books
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