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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.

Anne Carson

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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Desire Double Gold Love Madness Marriage Rule
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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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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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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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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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
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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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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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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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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