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You have to have fear in order to have courage.

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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

Happens, Life Is, Way, Writing
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

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As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be.

Risk, Quality, Stories, Perceive, Come, Contact

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

Demands, Pain, Principles, Qualities, Quality

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

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Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its lack. To whom is it lacking? To the lover. If we follow the trajectory of eros we consistently find it tracing out this same route: it moves out from the lover toward the beloved, then ricochets back to the lover himself and the hole in him, unnoticed before. Who is the subject of most love poems? Not the beloved. It is that hole.

Hole, Love, Moving, Pain, Route, Tracing
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