"The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between."

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Source : Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.109, Princeton University Press

Anne Carson

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“I believe a lot in what I do and in my work. I believe in me.”
“I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now.”
“A lot of the acting students would do modeling in the arts school, so there were some gorgeous girls, but the cliché in our school was to get either the really emaciated person or the really obese person - which is stupid.”

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“I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.”
“She did it the hard way.”
“A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.”

Source : Thomas a Kempis, Aeterna Press (1941*). “The Following of Christ”, p.78, Aeterna Press
“The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.”
“Don't hang onto anything too tightly-all things must change and you have to allow room for them to grow and blossom.”

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