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Anne Carson Quote

I wanted to run away with you tonightbut you are a difficult womanthe rules of you - Past and future circle round usnow we know more now lessin the institute of shadows.On a street black as widowswith nothing to confessour distances found usthe rules of you - so difficult a womanI wanted to run away with you tonight.

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I wanted to run away with you tonightbut you are a difficult womanthe rules of you - Past and future circle round usnow we know more now lessin the institute of shadows.On a street black as widowswith nothing to confessour distances found usthe rules of you - so difficult a womanI wanted to run away with you tonight.

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