"Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between â€˜I love youâ€™ and â€˜I love you too,â€™ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can."

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Source : Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.30, Princeton University Press

Anne Carson

#Love You Quotes #Issues Quotes #Self Quotes

“We are ALL broadcasters.”
“All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.”

Source : Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Komarr”, p.23, Baen Books
“Look no farther than your hand, Make a choice and take a stand.”

Source : Shannon Hale (2007). “Princess Academy”, p.178, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.”
“Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of the market economy, he understands morality as that which is conducive to increased activity. The important thing is to keep going.”

Source : Philip Rieff (1987). “The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud”, p.41, University of Chicago Press
“There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.”
“Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised! in vain. Their arts may be more dangerous then their arms. Let us then renounce all treaty with them upon any score but that of total separation, and under God trust our cause to our swords.”
“You cannot become a master until you actually take the leap, do the work, make several thousand mistakes, and live to tell about it.”

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