To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
ANNE CARSONOne of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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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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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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Desire is no light thing.
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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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