Lava bread makes you passionate.
ANNE CARSONWhen I desire you a part of me is gone.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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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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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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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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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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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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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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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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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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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