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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

Anne Carson

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
There is no person without a world.
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Desire is no light thing.
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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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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Accident Body Burn Fear Language
Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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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Angry Existence Grief Tragedy Yourself
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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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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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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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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Behind Desire Edge Effort Form Leaving
Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Dare Leaving Love Poverty
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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Arrival Breathe Delight Hope Live Moments Run
We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

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