It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
ANNE CARSON
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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