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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.

Anne Carson

No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Anand Thakur
We 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.
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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?
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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There is no person without a world.
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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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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Cleaning Himself Wind
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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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Anand Thakur

Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.

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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.

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