Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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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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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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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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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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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