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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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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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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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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Under the seams runs the pain.
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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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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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