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Around you move many seas. It is impossible not to drown a little.

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Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do.

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If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.

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This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.

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Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.

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My existence shrank from an arrow of light pointing into the future forever to a speck of light that was the present moment. I got better at living in that point of light, making the world into that point. I paid close attention to it. I loved it very much.

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You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.

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I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both.

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Sarah Manguso

Sarah Manguso

Born: 1974 (age 51)
Bio: Sarah Manguso is an American writer and poet. In 2007, she was awarded the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Known for:
  1. Ongoingness (2015)
  2. The two kinds of decay (2008)
  3. The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend (2012)
  4. Siste Viator (2006)
  5. The captain lands in paradise (1999)

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