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Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light.

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You're cold, said Herakles suddenly, your hands are cold. Here.

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And for a moment the frailest leaves of life contained him in a widening happiness.

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Although a monster Geryon could be charming in company.

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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

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I prayed and fasted. I read the mystics. I studied the martyrs. I began to think I was someone thirsting for God.

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A thousand questions hit my eyes from the inside.

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Forget the body, I still have my name.

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Can you eat winter? No. Can you live six months inside a frozen pear? No.

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How long will it feel like burning, said the child trying to be kind.

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You're mad—godswept godstruck
godnonsensical

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Every sound we make is a bit of autobiography.

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Your voice I know. It had me terrified.

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Sometimes I think language should cover its own eyes when it speaks.

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Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars.

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Four of the roses were on fire.

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Your strength is nothing. You cannot beat them: give up.

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There is no person without a world.

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Consider incompleteness as a verb.

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one dull gold bounce and you're there.