10 Quotes by Louise Glück about death
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This silence is my companion now. I ask: of what did my soul die? and the silence answersif your soul died, whose lifeare you living and when did you become that person?
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Tonight I saw myself in the dark window asthe image of my father, whose lifewas spent like this,thinking of death, to the exclusionof other sensual matters,so in the end that lifewas easy to give up, sinceit contained nothing: evenmy mother's voice couldn't make himchange or turn backas he believedthat once you can't love another human beingyou have no place in the world.
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Come to me said the world. I was standingin my wool coat at a kind of bright portal—I can finally saylong ago; it gives me considerable pleasure. Beautythe healer, the teacher—death cannot harm memore than you have harmed me,my beloved life.
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Suddenly, after you die, those friends who never agreed about anything agree about your character.
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It begins quietly in certain female children: the fear of death, taking as its formdedication to hunger,because a woman's bodyis a grave; it will acceptanything.
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You die when your spirit dies. Otherwise, you live.You may not do a good job of it, but you go on--something you have no choice about.
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We don't expect to know what Persephone is doing. She is dead, the dead are mysteries.
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I remember the word for chair.I want to say--I'm just not interested anymore.I wake up thinking you have to prepare.Soon the spirit will give up--all the chairs in the world won't help you.
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this, this is the meaning of "a fortunate life": it means to exist in the present.
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