Maggie Nelson
Born
San Francisco, California, The United States
Genre
The Argonauts
61 editions
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published
2015
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Bluets
55 editions
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published
2009
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The Red Parts
28 editions
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published
2007
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Jane: A Murder
18 editions
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published
2005
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The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
16 editions
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published
2011
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On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
35 editions
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published
2021
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Something Bright, Then Holes
12 editions
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published
2003
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The Latest Winter
7 editions
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published
2003
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Shiner
9 editions
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published
2001
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Like Love: Essays and Conversations
12 editions
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published
2024
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“I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in the world.
But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned otherwise. 'Love is not consolation,' she wrote. 'It is light.'
All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.”
― Bluets
But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned otherwise. 'Love is not consolation,' she wrote. 'It is light.'
All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.”
― Bluets
“Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.”
― Bluets
― Bluets
“Empirically speaking, we are made of star stuff. Why aren’t we talking more about that?”
― The Argonauts
― The Argonauts
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