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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.

Anne Carson

The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Death Man Theory Woman
Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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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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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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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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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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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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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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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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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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