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And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.
-Annie Proulx
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And It May Be That Love Sometimes

Annie Proulx
And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.
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Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. with grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion and the lesser coin of muted sadness and resignation; but something leaden of it remains, to become the kernel arond which more pain accretes (a black pearl): one pain becomes every other pain ... unless one strips away, one by one, the layers of pain to get to the heart of the pain - and this causes more pain, pain so intense as to feel like evisceration.
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For if jack buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, and that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. and it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.
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I don't see [the jungle] so much erotic. i see it more full of obscenity. it's just - nature here is vile and base. i wouldn't see anything erotical here. i would see fornication and asphyxiation and choking and fighting for survival and growing and just rotting away. of course, there's a lot of misery. but it is the same misery that is all around us. the trees here are in misery, and the birds are in misery. i don't think they sing. they just screech in pain.
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