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Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition

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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
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City of Toronto
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I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. We know no other. The underworld's a blank and all the rest just fantasy.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.
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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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The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.
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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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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
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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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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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