Lava bread makes you passionate.
ANNE CARSONNo one will ever make necessity not happen.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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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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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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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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I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
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Desire is no light thing.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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