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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.

Anne Carson

There is no person without a world.
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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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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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Desire is no light thing.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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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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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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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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Under the seams runs the pain.
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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Arrival Breathe Delight Hope Live Moments Run
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
Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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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