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The self forms at the edge of ...

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

Anne Carson 103 quotes

Aristotle says that metaphor c...

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

Anne Carson 103 quotes

Under the seams runs the pain....

Under the seams runs the pain.

Anne Carson 103 quotes

A refugee population is hungry...

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

Anne Carson 103 quotes

When they made love Geryon lik...

When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.

Anne Carson 103 quotes

Desire is no light thing....

Desire is no light thing.

Anne Carson 103 quotes

Why does tragedy exist? Becaus...

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

Anne Carson 103 quotes

Blessed be they whose lives do...

Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan

Anne Carson 103 quotes

Philosophers say man forms him...

Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.

Anne Carson 103 quotes

When I desire you a part of me...

When I desire you a part of me is gone...

Anne Carson 103 quotes

When an ecstatic is asked the ...

When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

Anne Carson 103 quotes

It is when you are asking abou...

It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself,

Anne Carson 103 quotes

You can never know enough, nev...

You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough,

Anne Carson 103 quotes

Each night about this time he ...

Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

Anne Carson 103 quotes

All myth is an enriched patter...

All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things?

Anne Carson 103 quotes

[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] D...

[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.

Anne Carson 103 quotes

Time isn't made of anything. I...

Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

Anne Carson 103 quotes

A man moves through time. It m...

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

Anne Carson 103 quotes

Caught between the tongue and ...

Caught between the tongue and the taste.

Anne Carson 103 quotes

What is a quote? A quote (cogn...

What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.

Anne Carson 103 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....