When I desire you a part of me is gone.
ANNE CARSONWhat is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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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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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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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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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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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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