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> [ “\[And while people ran about proclaiming such things,\] I could only think that everything exists because of loss. From the bricks of our buildings, from cement to human cells, everything exists because of chemical transformation, and every chemical transformation is… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/and-while-people-ran-about-proclaiming-such-things-i-could-only-think/)

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## More by Anne Michaels

> [The spirit in the body is like wine in a glass; when it spills, it seeps into air and earth and light….It’s a mistake…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/the-spirit-in-the-body-is-like-wine-in-a-glass-when-it-spills-it/)

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> [Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/like-other-ghosts-she-whispers-not-for-me-to-join-her-but-so-that/)

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> [I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/i-wanted-a-line-in-a-poem-to-be-the-hollow-ney-of-the-dervish/)

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> [Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/reading-a-poem-in-translation-is-like-kissing-a-woman-through-a-veil/)

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> [“I saved myself without thinking. I grasped the two syllables closest to me, and replaced my heartbeat with your name.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/i-saved-myself-without-thinking-i-grasped-the-two-syllables-closest/)

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> [When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/when-my-parents-were-liberated-four-years-before-i-was-born-they/)

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> [It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/it-s-a-fantastic-privilege-to-spend-three-or-four-hundred-pages-with/)

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> [I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/i-really-believe-we-read-differently-when-we-know-even-the-most-banal/)

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> [To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/to-share-a-hiding-place-physical-or-psychological-is-as-intimate-as/)

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> [Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/though-the-contradictions-of-war-seem-sudden-and-simultaneous-history/)

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> [“History is the love that enters us through death.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/history-is-the-love-that-enters-us-through-death/)

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> [If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/if-love-wants-you-if-you-ve-been-melted-down-to-stars-you-will-love/)

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> [The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/the-shadow-past-is-shaped-by-everything-that-never-happened-invisible/)

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> [The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/the-shadow-past-is-shaped-by-everything-that-never-happened-invisible-2/)

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> [Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-michaels/fiction-allows-you-to-embody-certain-ideas-and-give-them-an-emotional/)

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