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Anne Carson

“when joy betrays you
I do not count your life alive
a corpse is more alive
be as rich as you like be absolute
if your joy goes
I wouldn't buy you for a shadow of smoke”

Anne Carson, Antigonick
tags: joy, riches, sadness
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