Circumstances Quote by Anne Michaels

“I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.”

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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 to think it’s the small things we control and not the large, it’s the other way around! We can’t stop the small accident, the tiny detail that conspires into fate: the extra moment you run back…

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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.”

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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 was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot…

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I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.

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To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.

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Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

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“History is the love that enters us through death.”

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