Sarah Manguso - The two kinds of decay (2008)

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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.

Sarah Manguso

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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