Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, … - Anne Carson

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Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.

Anne Carson

Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. We know no other. The underworld's a blank and all the rest just fantasy.

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