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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

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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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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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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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 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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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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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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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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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