Lydia Millet Quotes

• It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.

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  Eye, Light, Sea

  Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.266, Soft Skull Press

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• Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.

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  Grief, Suffering, Sorrow

  Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.127, Soft Skull Press

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• We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.

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  Eye, Empathy, Needs

  Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.266, Soft Skull Press

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• Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.

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  Clouds, Ideas, Sound

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• The rooms of his apartment were full with the dog home again, convalescing. He was satisfied to know, even when she was out of sight, that somewhere in the apartment she was sleeping or eating or sitting watchfully. It was family, he guessed, more or less. Did most people want a house of living things at night, to know that in the dark around them other warm bodies slept? Such a house could even be the whole world.

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  Dog, Home, Sleep

  Lydia Millet (2009). “How the Dead Dream”, p.185, Counterpoint Press

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• We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished.

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  Long, Conformity, Distinguished

  Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.166, Soft Skull Press

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• Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of Merry Gold is an exceptional, lovely book, beautifully enigmatic, speaking a language that mysteriously evokes the unspoken.

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  Book, Unique, Grace

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• Stay in these rooms for years and years, live on forever in a glorious museum.

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  Museums, Years, Forever

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• The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.

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  Gun, Rpgs, Opinion

  Lydia Millet (2014). “Mermaids in Paradise: A Novel”, p.85, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy of someone about to be martyred, illumination of something given up as an offer.

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  Sweet, Grief, Heart

  Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.206, Soft Skull Press

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• Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity.

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  Grief, Humanity, Sublime

  Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.214, Soft Skull Press

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