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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.

Anne Carson

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Necessary Need
Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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Anand Thakur
I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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Anand Thakur
You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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Desire Double Gold Love Madness Marriage Rule
A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Difficult Interval Poet
Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Anand Thakur
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Dare Leaving Love Poverty
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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Anand Thakur

At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.

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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.

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