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21 " Rely on no one. Depend on no one for your happiness. I am declaring my independence. I am establishing a republic unto myself. I am seceding from the human race. "
― Eric Gamalinda , The Descartes Highlands
22 " Grief is a nation of everyone, a country without borders. I roam the avenues of it out of habit. "
― Eric Gamalinda
23 " America: the name itself is synonymous with imperialism - you've taken the name of two entire continents & claimed it as your own, & shut out anyone else from using it. "
24 " With every step he felt he was losing some part of himself, the way we gradually lose our memory of what we once thought mattered, pulling us faster towards that emptiness in which we are no longer human. "
― Eric Gamalinda , My Sad Republic
25 " It offended him and mocked him: the fact that the world didn't die when his heart did. "
26 " Even dictators become dictators because somehow, deep in their hearts, they believe they've been chosen to save the world. Everyone is chosen. There lies the problem. Every wants to do something. Everyone thinks his, & no other's, is the only way. Everyone is deranged with purpose. "
27 " and in the darkness that was fast enclosing him he was filled with joy, because life is endless, its mysteries will never entirely be revealed, and to be human is to be alive in constant wonder. "
28 " Give up Spanish, give up anything in the language that broke our hearts. Do not be tempted by English, the language that breaks our souls. Speak only in the tongue of tongues before any white man came. "