Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
ANNE CARSONDesire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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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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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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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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I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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