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"I really hate that Hamori has tried to make this book hip and accessible to the reader. The juvenile tone is distracting and cringey.
Just write a good academic book, I promise it will be interesting enough for us to keep reading.
Also- my kingdom for an editor! So repetitive!!" — Feb 18, 2026 02:39PM
"I really hate that Hamori has tried to make this book hip and accessible to the reader. The juvenile tone is distracting and cringey.
Just write a good academic book, I promise it will be interesting enough for us to keep reading.
Also- my kingdom for an editor! So repetitive!!" — Feb 18, 2026 02:39PM
“YOUNGER MORTIMER: Base Fortune, now I see, that in thy wheel
There is a point, to which when men aspire,
They tumble headlong down: that point I touch'd,
And, seeing there was no place to mount up higher,
Why shall I grieve at my declining fall?
Farewell, fair queen. Weep not for Mortimer,
That scorns the world, and, as a traveller,
Goes to discover countries yet unknown.”
― Edward II
There is a point, to which when men aspire,
They tumble headlong down: that point I touch'd,
And, seeing there was no place to mount up higher,
Why shall I grieve at my declining fall?
Farewell, fair queen. Weep not for Mortimer,
That scorns the world, and, as a traveller,
Goes to discover countries yet unknown.”
― Edward II
“There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces. I must have time alone in which to mull over my encounter, and to extract its juice, its essence, to understand what has really happened to me as a consequence of it.”
― Journal of a Solitude
― Journal of a Solitude
“Spiritual truth is not something elaborate and esoteric, it is in fact profound common sense. When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don’t actually “become” a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded. And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.”
― The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
― The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
“You are my Easter.”
― Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
― Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
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