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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.

Anne Carson

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Help Myself Pursue Religion
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Necessary Need
Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Himself Known Oneself Try
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.

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