Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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Anand Thakur
Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
ANNE CARSONLava bread makes you passionate.
ANNE CARSONHe was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
ANNE CARSONThe man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
ANNE CARSONExistence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
ANNE CARSONWhen 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.
ANNE CARSONIt takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
ANNE CARSONComfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
ANNE CARSONThose nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
ANNE CARSONGive me a world, you have taken the world I was.
ANNE CARSONWe are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
ANNE CARSONYou doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
ANNE CARSONWe’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
ANNE CARSONWords bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
ANNE CARSONPhilosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
ANNE CARSONDesire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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