Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake. - Anne Carson

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Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

Anne Carson

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.

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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

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As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be.

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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

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You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

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