Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
ANNE CARSONNo one will ever make necessity not happen.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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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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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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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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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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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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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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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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