He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
ANNE CARSONA man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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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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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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