“Her blood is dancing, she wants to live, and there is no life here.”— Anton Chekhov, from The Complete Stories; “In Exile,”
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“There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about other people lost in grief and rage is good for you – may cleanse you of your darkness. Do you want to go down to the pits of yourself all alone? Not much. What if an actor could do it for you? Isn’t that why they are called actors? They act for you. You sacrifice them to action. And this sacrifice is a mode of deepest intimacy of you with your own life.”— Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides; Tragedy: A Curious Art Form.
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