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Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you. Have you given much thought to our mortal condition? Probably not. Why would you? Well, listen. There's no one alivewho can say if he will be tomorrow. Our fate moves invisibly! A mystery. No one can teach it, no one can grasp it. Accept this! Cheer up! Have a drink! You can let the rest go. Am I making sense? I think so. How about a drink. Put on a garland. I'm surethe happy splash of wine will cure your mood. We're all mortal you know. Think mortal. Because my theory is, there's no such thing as life, .Anne Carson
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Now every mortal has painand 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 blankand all the rest just fantasy.Anne Carson
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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.Anne Carson
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I will not stop singingthe Muses who set me dancing.Anne Carson
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Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune meansan acid test of friendship. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.Anne Carson
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Grief and rage--you need to contain that, to put a frame around it, where it can play itself out without you or your kin having to die. There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about other people lost in grief and rage is good for you--may cleanse you of your darkness. Do you want to go down to the pits of yourself all alone? Not much. What if an actor could do it for you? Isn't that why they are called actors? They act for you. You sacrifice them to action. And this sacrifice is a mode of deepest intimacy of you with your own life. Within it you watch [yourself] act out the present or possible organization of your nature. You can be aware of your own awareness of this nature as you never are at the moment of experience. The actor, by reiterating you, sacrifices a moment of his own life in order to give you a story of yours.Anne Carson
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Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you. Have you given much thought to our mortal condition? Probably not. Why would you? Well, lAnne Carson
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DEATH.. .And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. A P O L L O Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. D E A T H Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? A P O L L O I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.Anne Carson