Desire is no light thing.
ANNE CARSONWhat is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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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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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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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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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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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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