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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.

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As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How…
Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But…
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself…
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time,
A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.

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His hands reached for me, gripping my hipbones and pulling me forward. he stared down at me, his voice low. "There are… — Tammara Webber
The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death. — Anne Carson
She ran her hands over her body as if to bid it good-bye. The hipbones rising from a shrunken stomach were razor-sharp.… — Steven Levenkron

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