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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Anand Thakur
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Anand Thakur
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Anand Thakur
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur

Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.

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