Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
ANNE CARSONA man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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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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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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