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> [“I feel I can give you everything without giving myself away, I whispered in your basement bed. If one does one's solitude right, this is the prize.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-nelson/i-feel-i-can-give-you-everything-without-giving-myself-away-i/)

[Maggie Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-nelson/)

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## More by Maggie Nelson

> [“When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-nelson/when-i-was-alive-i-aimed-to-be-a-student-not-of-longing-but-of-light/)

[Maggie Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-nelson/)

> [I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and they're unarticulated,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-nelson/i-think-writing-kind-of-burns-out-the-flaming-question-sometimes-it/)

[Maggie Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-nelson/)

> [“I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-nelson/i-want-you-to-know-if-you-ever-read-this-there-was-a-time-when-i/)

[Maggie Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-nelson/)

> [“It is absurd, Barthes says, to try to flee from language's assertive nature 'adding to each sentence some little phrase of uncertainty, as if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-nelson/it-is-absurd-barthes-says-to-try-to-flee-from-language-s-assertive/)

[Maggie Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-nelson/)

> [“I can remember a time when I took Henry James's advice--'try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!'--deeply to heart.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-nelson/i-can-remember-a-time-when-i-took-henry-james-s-advice-try-to-be-one/)

[Maggie Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-nelson/)

> [It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-nelson/it-is-easier-of-course-to-find-dignity-in-one-s-solitude-loneliness/)

[Maggie Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-nelson/)

> [“But “knowing the truth” does not come with redemption as a guarantee, nor does a feeling of redemption guarantee an end to a cycle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-nelson/but-knowing-the-truth-does-not-come-with-redemption-as-a-guarantee/)

[Maggie Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-nelson/)

> [“Girls are cruelest to themselves,” observes Anne Carson in “The Glass Essay,” her brilliant long poem about the ravages of female anger, loneliness, grief,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-nelson/girls-are-cruelest-to-themselves-observes-anne-carson-in-the-glass/)

[Maggie Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-nelson/)

> [“On one hand, the Aristotelian, perhaps evolutionary need to put everything into categories– predators, twilight, edible – on the other, the need to pay homage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-nelson/on-one-hand-the-aristotelian-perhaps-evolutionary-need-to-put/)

[Maggie Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-nelson/)

> [“Do not, however, make the mistake of thinking that all desire is yearning.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-nelson/do-not-however-make-the-mistake-of-thinking-that-all-desire-is/)

[Maggie Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-nelson/)

> [“Psychology forces everything we call love into the pathological or the delusional or the biologically explicable, that if that I was feeling wasn't love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-nelson/psychology-forces-everything-we-call-love-into-the-pathological-or/)

[Maggie Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-nelson/)

> [“I edit myself into a boldness that is neither native or foreign to me. At times I grow tired of this approach, and all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-nelson/i-edit-myself-into-a-boldness-that-is-neither-native-or-foreign-to-me/)

[Maggie Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-nelson/)

> [“The idea is a complicated one, as the burden falls to us to differentiate this Divine Darkness from other kinds of darknesses-- that off…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-nelson/the-idea-is-a-complicated-one-as-the-burden-falls-to-us-to/)

[Maggie Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-nelson/)

> [Yes, I'm writing about motherhood, but I bristle a little bit, especially living with someone whose parenting falls between the cracks of what the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-nelson/yes-i-m-writing-about-motherhood-but-i-bristle-a-little-bit/)

[Maggie Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-nelson/)

> [“I do not know the reason for this blue pussy, meant to convey both divine bewilderment and revelation. But I do feel that its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-nelson/i-do-not-know-the-reason-for-this-blue-pussy-meant-to-convey-both/)

[Maggie Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-nelson/)

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