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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

Anne Carson

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
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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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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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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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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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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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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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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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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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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Power Word Yourself
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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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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