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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.

Anne Carson

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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Arrival Breathe Delight Hope Live Moments Run
There is no person without a world.
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Anand Thakur
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Condition Female Madness Public Voice Witch
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Desire is no light thing.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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Eat Habit Man Mom Talk Yourself
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.

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