When I desire you a part of me is gone.
ANNE CARSONExistence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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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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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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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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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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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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