186 Quotes by Sharon Olds
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as he soars from the precipice edge, dreamy.
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When anyone escapes, my heartleaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from,I am half on the side of the leaver.
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It's so quiet,and empty, when he's left. I feel like a landscape,a ground without a figure.
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Suave qui peut—let those who can save themselvessave themselves.
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If I pass a mirror, I turn away, I do not want to look at her,and she does not want to be seen.
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In me now there's a being of sheer hate, like an angelof hate.
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But look! I am starting to give him up!I believe he is not coming back. Somethinghas died, inside me, believing that
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The other dreams inside a constellation
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and some young men loved them the way one would want, oneself, to be loved.
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